 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 802 pages
...forms prescribed by the Constitution and laws. 5. All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application...to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence, and it will always be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions to its language, which would... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1870 - 800 pages
...forms prescribed by the Constitution and laws. 6. All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application...to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence, and it will always be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions to its language, which would... | |
 | Law - 1921 - 510 pages
...Wall. 482, 486 (19 L. Ed. 278), this court said: "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application...oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the Legislature intended exceptions to its language, which would avoid... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 764 pages
...96; Henry v. Tilson, 17 Vt., 479: People v. Admire, 39 111., 251; U. £ v. The Hunter, Pet. CC, 10. General terms should be so limited in their application...to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. US v. Kirby, 1 "Wall., 482. Moreover, if a literal construction be put upon this act, it is not only... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1228 pages
...avoid tbe absurdity." State v. Clark, 29 NJ Law, 96. "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application...oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the Legislature intended exceptions to its language which would avoid results... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1902 pages
...Wend. 399; Lake Shore Ry. Co. v. Roach, 80 KY 339. " 'All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application...oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions to its lanyuaye which would avoid results... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 2038 pages
...but thinking makes it so." The Supreme Court says : "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application...oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the Legislature Intended exceptions to Its language, which would avoid... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 2072 pages
...UB v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 483, Mr. Justice Field said: "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited In their application...injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will therefore be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions to its language, which would avoid results... | |
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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... 
