 | United States. Court of Claims - 1919 - 740 lapas
...United States, 144 US, 47, the court said: " Nothing is better settled than that statutes should receive a sensible construction, such as will effectuate the...so as to avoid an unjust or an absurd conclusion. The claimant company was fully informed by the officers of the department as to the construction which... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - 1922 - 710 lapas
...applicable. The Chief Justice said : " Nothing is better settled than that statutes should receive a sensible construction, such as will effectuate the...so as to avoid an unjust or an absurd conclusion. Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 143 US 457; Henderson v. Mayor of New York, 92 US 259;... | |
 | 1893 - 2192 lapas
...8, 144 US 47-59, 12 Sup. Ct. Eep. 517, "nothing is better settled than that statutes should receive a sensible construction, such as will effectuate the...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 - 1896 - 1242 lapas
...Sup. Ct. G06. "Nothing Is better settled," this court has said, "than that statutes should receive a sensible construction, such as will effectuate the...an unjust or an absurd conclusion." Lau Ow Bew v. US, 144 US 47, 59, 12 Sup. Ct 517. Giving effect to these rules of statutory interpretation, we cannot... | |
 | 1897 - 1036 lapas
...Ct. 600, 609. 'Nothing Is better settled,' this court has said, 'than that statutes should receive a sensible construction, such as will effectuate the...an unjust or an absurd conclusion.' Lau Ow Bew v. US, 144 U S. 47, 59, 12 Sup. Ct. 517, 520. Giving effect to these rules of statutory interpretation,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1911 - 766 lapas
...the purposes leading to their enactment. "Nothing is better settled than that statutes should receive a sensible construction, such as will effectuate the...if possible, so as to avoid an unjust or an absurd UNITED STATES v. AMERICAN TOBACCO CO. 113 221 US Argument for the United States. conclusion." Lau Ow... | |
 | 1901 - 1166 lapas
...extraneous and unnatural force not intended. "Nothing is better settled than that statutes should receive a sensible construction, such as will effectuate the...an unjust or an absurd conclusion." Lau Ow Bew v. US, 144 US 47, 12 Sup. Ct 517, 36 L. Ed. 340. Judgment affirmed. (72 vt 11Б) STATE v. LOTTI. (Supreme... | |
 | 1917 - 1350 lapas
...particularly true in the case of ambiguous statutes; or, to state it differently, statutes should receive a sensible construction such as will effectuate the...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... | |
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... nothing is better settled than that statutes should receive a sensible construction, such as will effectuate the legislative intention, and, if possible, so as to avoid an unjust or an absurd conclusion, Lau Ow Bew v. 
