 | Samuel Hazard - 1828 - 434 стор.
...statutes as old and well established as law itself and must be always borne in mind by Courts and Juries. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights of individuals verdict accordingly. At the same time it is our duty to gay, that it a in perfect accordance with the... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit), Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 670 стор.
...statutes as old and well established as law itself, and must be always borne in mind by courts and juries. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights of individuals, and on the plain and universal principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislature, and not in the judicial... | |
 | Joseph Tate - 1841 - 992 стор.
...that penal laws are to be construed strictly, is perhaps not much less old than construction itself. It is founded on the tenderness of the law, for the...is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment. It would be dangerous indeed, to carry the principle, that a case which is within the reason or mischief... | |
 | 1846 - 110 стор.
..."that penal laws should be construed strictly, is perhaps not much 'ess old than construction itself. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights of ind : viduals, . and on the plain principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislature,... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 стор.
...that penal laws are to be construed strictly, is perhaps not much less old than construction itself. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the...principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislature, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature and not the court which is to define... | |
 | Samuel Owen - 1849 - 404 стор.
...that penal laws are to be construed strictly, is perhaps not much less old than construction itself. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the...principle that the power of punishment is vested in -the legislature, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1852 - 616 стор.
...the personal liberty of the subject, and I hope will always remain so."* This rule, however, which is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights...power of punishment is vested in the legislative, and not in the judicial department, must not be so applied as to narrow the words of the statute to... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 стор.
...that penal laws are to be construed strictly, is perhaps not .much less old than construction itself. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the...principle, that the power of punishment is vested in the legislature, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1858 - 1012 стор.
...that penal laws are to be construed strictly, is perhaps not much less old than construction itself. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the...that notwithstanding this rule, the intention of the lawmaker must govern in the construction j)t' penal as well as other statutes. This is true, B, ut... | |
 | Alexandra, vessel - 1864 - 618 стор.
...laws are to be construed strictly is, perhaps, '".' ^y> " not much less old than construction itself. It is founded on " the tenderness of the law for the...power of punishment is vested in " the legislative and not in the judicial department. It is the " legislature, not the Court, which is to define a crime... | |
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The rule that penal laws are to be construed strictly, is perhaps not much less old than construction itself. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights of individuals; and on the plain principle that the power of punishment is vested in... 
