 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1910 - 748 halaman
...provisions. Where general language construed in a broad sense would lead to absurdity it may be restrained. The particular inquiry is not what is the abstract...words or what they may comprehend, but in what sense they were intended to be used as they are found in the act. The sense in which they were intended to... | |
 | 1910 - 1206 halaman
...provisions. Where general language construed in a broad sense would lead to absurdity, it may be restrained. The particular inquiry is not what is the abstract force of the words, or what they may eomprelmnd, but in what sense they were intended to be used as they are found in the act? The sense... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - 1891 - 836 halaman
...provisions.6 Where general language construed in a broad sense would lead to absurdity it may be restrained.7 The particular inquiry is not what is the abstract...words or what they may comprehend, but in what sense they i Burke v. Monroe County, supra. La. Ann. 516 ; Barker v. Esty, 19 Vt 2 Vinton v. Builders', etc.... | |
 | 1895 - 1228 halaman
...COBBTKUCTION OP STATUTE— DIVISION or COUNTI —FLOATING INDEBTEDNESS. 1. In the construction of a statute, the particular inquiry is not what is the abstract force of the words used, or what they may comprehend, but in what souse they were intended to he used as they are found... | |
 | Tennessee. Supreme Court, William Wilcox Cooke, Joseph Brown Heiskell, Jere Baxter, Benjamin James Lea, George Wesley Pickle, Charles Theodore Cates, Frank Marian Thompson, Charles Le Sueur Cornelius, Roy Hood Beeler - 1896 - 824 halaman
...they may be expanded. . . . The intention of the Act will prevail over the literal sense of its terms. The particular inquiry is not what is the abstract force of the words used, but in what sense were they intended to be used as found in the Act. This sense is to be collected... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1900 - 792 halaman
...provisions. Where general language construed in a broad sense would lead to absurdity, it may be restrained. The particular inquiry is not what is the abstract...words or what they may comprehend, but in what sense they were intended to be used as they are found in Ihe act." Sutherland §246. To insert into the seventh... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - 1904 - 832 halaman
...Ed. 1041; United States v. Pine River Logging & Imp. Co., 89 Fed. 907, 32 CCA 406. be restrained.4 The particular inquiry is not what is the abstract...words or what they may comprehend, but in what sense they were intended to be used as they are found in the act. The sense in which they were intended to... | |
 | 1906 - 1292 halaman
...flexible to admit of some other construction it is to be adopted to effectuate that Intention. * * * The particular inquiry is not what is the abstract...force of the words or what they may comprehend, but ¡u what sense they were intended to be used as they are found in the act. The sense In which they... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1988 - 970 halaman
...However, while the starting point in interpreting statutes and rules is always the plain words themselves, "[t]he particular inquiry is not what is the abstract...comprehend, but in what sense were they intended to be understood or what understanding they convey when used in the particular act."6 We previously have... | |
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The particular inquiry is not what is the abstract force of the words or what they may comprehend, but in what sense they were intended to be used as they are found in the act. 
