 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1986 - 996 стор.
...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 стор.
...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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 800 стор.
...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 стор.
...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 стор.
...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 стор.
...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 стор.
...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... | |
 | 1895 - 2084 стор.
...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... | |
 | 1881 - 956 стор.
...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... | |
 | 1884 - 1902 стор.
...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... | |
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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... 
