How have courts interpreted common sense in construcing laws as saying what they obviously mean?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Olsen, 186 Cal.App.3d 257, 230 Cal.Rptr. 598 (Cal. App. 1986):
"We agree to all the generalities about not supplying criminal laws with what they omit, but there is no canon against using common sense in construing laws as saying what they obviously mean." (Roschen v. Ward (1929) 279 U.S. 337, 49 S.Ct. 336, 73 L.Ed. 722, 728, (by, Holmes, J.).)
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