 | 1893 - 2192 頁
...construction of the statute; for, as is said in Lau Ow Bew v. U. 8, 144 US 47-59, 12 Sup. Ct. Eep. 517, "nothing is better settled than that statutes should...intention, and, if possible, so as to avoid an unjust or absurd result." We reaffirm, therefore, the conclusion reached in the case of Mining Co. v. Ripley,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1897 - 798 頁
...construed, is not open to the objection that it conflicts with the provisions of the Constitution. Statutes should receive a sensible construction, such...as will effectuate the legislative intention, and avoid, if possible, an unjust or absurd conclusion. liunkle v. United States, 122 US 543, again questioned,... | |
 | 1917 - 1350 頁
...and that this is particularly true in the case of ambiguous statutes; or, to state it differently, statutes should receive a sensible construction such...legislative intention, and, If possible, so as to avoid any unjust or absurd conclusion, and that there Is no салоп of interpretation which requires that... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1892 - 1132 頁
...purposes animo revertendi, seek to reenter it on their return to their business and their hornee. 3. Statutes should receive a sensible construction, such as will effectuate the legislative intention. NOTE.— As to when habeas corpus may fsvue. and when not; and from what courts, and by whatjudacs;... | |
 | 1900 - 1098 頁
...Justice, in Lau Ow Bew v. united Slates, 144 US 47, 5П. 36 L. ed. 340, 344, 12 Sup. Ct. Rep. 517, 520. "than that statutes should receive a sensible construction,...effectuate the legislative intention, and, if possible, so ns to avoid an unjust or an absurd conclusion." The purpose of the 6th section, requiring the certificate,... | |
 | Arthur Jerome Eddy - 1901 - 892 頁
...144 US 47, 12 Sup. Ct. R. 517, this court, speaking through Mr. Chief Justice Fuller, said (p. 59): ' Nothing is better settled than that statutes should...intention, and, if possible, so as to avoid an unjust or 894: THE FEDERAL ANTI-TRUST LAW. certain extent wrong, and the sharpness of the division is a sure... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1901 - 1118 頁
...Co. v. Barney, 113 US 61Я. 625 [28: 1109, 1111]. "Nothing is better settled," this court has said, "than that statutes should receive a sensible construction,...will effectuate the legislative intention, and, if pos tibie, so as to avoid ¡in unjust or an absurd conclusion." Lau Oui Hew v. United States, 144 US... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - 1903 - 636 頁
...section will not destroy another, but explain and support it.1" (2) The construction should be sensible, such as will effectuate the legislative intention, and, if possible, so as to avoid an unjust and absurd conclusion."1 (3) Penal statutes must be strictly construed, remedial ones liberally;1"... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - 1903 - 798 頁
...legislative intent made clear by the terms of the act and apparently lead to unjust and unexpected results. "Nothing is better settled than that statutes should...intention and, if possible, so as to avoid an unjust and absurd conclusion." (La/u Ow Bew v. U. £., 144 US, 47.) prohibited, from entering the United States... | |
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It is true that the reference is to 'any' matter under inquiry,- and so on, and it is suggested that this is fatally defective because too broad and unlimited in its extent ; but nothing is better settled than that statutes should receive a sensible construction,... 
