 All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions...  The Pacific Reporter - Էջ 1311893Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1986 - 996 էջ
...General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be...law in such cases should prevail over its letter." United States v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 482, 486-487 (1869). See also Helvering v. Hammel, 311 US 504, 510... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1869 - 802 էջ
...their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence, and it will always be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions...language, which would avoid results of this character. THE defendants were indicted for knowingly and wilfully obstructing and retarding the passage of the mail... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 800 էջ
...their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence, and it will always be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions...language, which would avoid results of this character. THE defendants were indicted for knowingly and wilfully obstructing and retarding the passage of the mail... | |
 | 1921 - 510 էջ
...General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be...law in such cases should prevail over its letter. The common sense of the man approves the judgment mentioned by Putfendorf, that the Bolognian law,... | |
 | 1896 - 644 էջ
...their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always be presumed that the Legislature intended exceptions...avoid results of this character. The reason of the law should prevail over the letter : US v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 482. The plaintiffs sixth and seventh points... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit), William Henry Clifford - 1878 - 766 էջ
...General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always therefore be presumed...language, which would avoid results of this character." United States v. Kirby, 1 Wall. 486. John C. Mopes, for the defendant. By § 8 of the first article... | |
 | 1915 - 1228 էջ
...General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be...law in such cases should prevail over its letter." United States v. Kirby, 74 US (7 Wall.) 482, 19 L. Ed. 278. "It is a familiar rule that a thing may... | |
 | 1895 - 2084 էջ
...before it, 'should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always therefore be presumed...prevail over its letter.' US v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 482. So the judges of England construed the law which enacted that a prisoner breaking prison should be... | |
 | 1882 - 1916 էջ
...before it, "should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be...prevail over its letter." US v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 482. So the judges of England construed the law which enacted that a prisoner breaking prison should be... | |
 | 1881 - 956 էջ
...General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be...law, in such cases, should prevail over its letter." Again, in French v. Edwards, 13 Wall. 506, 511, it says: '•There are, undoubtedly, many statutory... | |
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