 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1986 - 996 páginas
...application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions...over its letter." United States v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 482, 486-487 (1869). See also Helvering v. Hammel, 311 US 504, 510 (1941); United States v. Katz, 271... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1869 - 802 páginas
...limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence, and it will always be presumed that the legislature intended...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 páginas
...application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the Legislature intended exceptions...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 páginas
...so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always be presumed that the Legislature intended...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 - 732 páginas
...application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always therefore be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions...language, which would avoid results of this character." United States v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 486. John C. Ropes, for the defendant. By § 8 of the first article... | |
 | 1915 - 1228 páginas
...application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the Legislature intended exceptions...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 be within the letter of... | |
 | 1881 - 956 páginas
...application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions...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... | |
 | 1895 - 2084 páginas
...application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always therefore be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions...law, in such cases, should prevail over its letter.' US v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 482. So the judges of England construed the law which enacted that a prisoner... | |
 | 1884 - 1902 páginas
...consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions to its lanyuaye which would avoid results of this character. The reason of the law in such cases should prevail over the letter.' V. 8. v. Kirby, 1 Wall . 486. • In whatever language a statute may be framed , its purpose... | |
 | 1894 - 2072 páginas
...their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will therefore be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions...language, which would avoid results of this character." Ho in Pollard v. Bailey, 20 Wall. 525, the chief justice said: "The intention of the legislature, when... | |
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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... 
