 | United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - Law reports, digests, etc - 1955 - 908 pages
...history to determine whether giving the words their natural significance leads to unreasonable results plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation as a whole, or to determine whether a certain word or phrase has been employed with a more limited or different... | |
 | 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1924 - 1392 pages
...Congress. Primarily this intent is ascertained by giving the words their natural significance; hut if this leads to an unreasonable result, plainly at...whole, we must examine the matter further. We may 'hen look to the reason of the enactment, and inquire into its antecedent history, and give it effect... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1924 - 1212 pages
...ТЕВМ, their natural significance; but if this leads States citizen, although, at the time of iti to an unreasonable result, plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation as a whole, the court must look to the reason of the enactment, and inquire into its antecedent history, and give... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1924 - 748 pages
...я statute is ascertained by giving the words their natural significance, but, if this leads to nn unreasonable result plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation as a whole, the court may look to the reason of the enactment and inquire into its antecedent history and give... | |
 | John Bond Trevor - Emigration and immigration law - 1925 - 100 pages
...intended the restriction to be no longer applicable to the provision. It is the duty of this Court to give effect to the intent of Congress. Primarily...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 its antecedent... | |
 | United States. National Labor Relations Board - Arbitration, Industrial - 1948 - 986 pages
...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 policy... | |
 | United States. Customs Court - Customs administration - 1978 - 276 pages
...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. When aid to construction of the... | |
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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. 
