 | J. Kendrick Kinney - 1886 - 520 Seiten
...argument of a general intent. [GRIER and CLIPFORD, JJ., dissenting.] Poor v. Considine, 6 Wai. 458. 15. All laws should receive a sensible construction :...application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or absurd consequences ; and it will always be presumed thut the legislature intended exceptions to its... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1887 - 792 Seiten
...statute is to be interpreted, not only by its exact words, bufalso by its apparent general purpose. General terms should be so limited in their application...to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. United States v. Freeman^ How. 556; United States v. Kirby,1 Wall. 482; United States v. Saunders,... | |
 | 1887 - 1070 Seiten
...Walsh, 15 Mo. 519. In such cases the reason of the law prevails over its letter, ano general terms are so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence; the presumption being indulged that the legislature intended no such anomalous results. U. 8. v. Kirby,... | |
 | 1897 - 1054 Seiten
...against unreason. Inconvenience, or injustice." And again (section 258): "General terms [as "assigns"] should be so limited in their application as not to lead to * » * an absurd consequence." Now, when we look to see against whom the action may be brought, we... | |
 | Gustav Adolf Endlich - 1888 - 970 Seiten
...Ind. 280. 634, 537 ; Somerset v. Dighton 12 stances from the spirit of its enactment." It follows that "general terms should be so limited in their application...Legislature intended exceptions to its language which would avoid results of this character. The reason of the law in such cases should prevail over its letter."70]... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1888 - 676 Seiten
...himself done what the law requires of him. In United States v. Klrby, 7 Wall. 482, the court said : "All laws should receive a sensible construction....injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence." This genRodman v. Reynolds et al. eral doctrine was affirmed in Humphrics v. Dacis, 100 Ind. 274, where... | |
 | 1911 - 1320 Seiten
...Mass, 197 US 11, 25 Sup. Ct. 358, 49 L. Ed. 643 (see Ed. Law Jour. April 26, 1910), the court say: "All laws should receive a sensible construction....application as not to lead to Injustice, oppression, or absurd consequences. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the Legislature intended exceptions... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1889 - 778 Seiten
...States v. Kirby, 7 "Wall. 486 : " All laws should receive a sensiArgument for Defendant in Krror. ble construction. General terms should be so limited in...oppression or an absurd consequence. It will always be presumed that the legislature included exceptions to its language which would avoid result* of this... | |
 | 1889 - 952 Seiten
...under the maxim contra non valcntem agere rmlln currit prcewriptio. 1 Pothier, 451. It will always be presumed that the Legislature intended exceptions to Its language which would avoid injustice, oppression or an absurd consequence. The reason of the law, in such cases, should... | |
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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... 
