 | United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1938 - 834 pages
...ascertained by giving the words their natural significance, but if this leads to an unreasonable result plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation as a whole, we must examine the matter further. We may then look to the reason of the enactment and inquire into... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - 1936 - 1300 pages
...ascertained by giving the words their natural significance, but if this leads to an unreasonable result, plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation as a whole, we must examine the matter further. We may then look to the reason of the enactment, and inquire into... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - Copyright - 1953 - 476 pages
...of the majority hereinbefore expressed has produced an absurd result, however, contrary to law and plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation as a whole. United States et cd. v. American Trucking Associations, Inc., et al., 310 US 534, 542-544. Here the... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1923 - 946 pages
...ascertained by giving the words their natural significance, but if this leads to an unreasonable result plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation as a whole, we must examine the matter further. We may then look to the reason of the enactment and inquire into... | |
 | John Bond Trevor - Emigration and immigration law - 1925 - 100 pages
...ascertained by giving the words their natural significance, but if this leads to an unreasonable result plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation as a whole, we must examine that matter further. We may then look to the reason of the enactment and inquire into... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1928 - 1054 pages
...ascertained by giving the words their natural significance; but if this leads to an unreasonable result, plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation as a whole, we must examine t-he matter further. We may then look to the reason of the enactment, and inquire into... | |
 | United States. Veterans Administration - Civil service - 1933 - 556 pages
...ascertained by giving the words their natural significance, but if this leads to an unreasonable result plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation as a whole, we must examine the matter further. We may then look to the reason of the enactment and inquire into... | |
 | United States. National Labor Relations Board - Arbitration, Industrial - 1948 - 986 pages
...apply section 8 (c) to section 8 (b) (4) (A) would lead to "absurd or futile results" or, at least, to "an unreasonable one 'plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation as a whole'," we consider it our duty, as the administrative agency entrusted with the enforcement of the public... | |
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Frequently, however, even when the plain meaning did not produce absurd results but merely an unreasonable one 'plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation as a whole' this Court has followed that purpose, rather than the literal words. 
