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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... "
Federal Decisions: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme, Circuit and ... - Page 447
1885
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The Register of Pennsylvania: Devoted to the Preservation of Facts ..., Volume 5

Samuel Hazard - 1828 - 434 pages
...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...
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Reports of Cases Determined in the Circuit Court of the United States, in ...

United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit), Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 670 pages
...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...
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A Full Report, Embracing All the Evidence and Arguments in the Case of the ...

1846 - 110 pages
...says Chief Justice Marshall, "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,...
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Commentaries on Statute and Constitutional Law and Statutory and ...

E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 pages
...intention it must be. considered as within the letter, so if it be within the reason of the statute. The rule that penal laws are to be construed strictly,...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...
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The New-York Legal Observer, Volume 7

Samuel Owen - 1849 - 404 pages
...statute.* The law upon this subject is laid down by Ch. J. Marshall with his usual force and clearness.t " The rule that penal laws are to be construed strictly,...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...
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A Selection of Legal Maxims: Classified and Illustrated

Herbert Broom - 1852 - 616 pages
...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...
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A Treatise on the Rules which Govern the Interpretation and Application of ...

Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 pages
...was held that the United States had no jurisdiction under the 12th section ; and the court said, — The rule that penal laws are to be construed strictly,...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...
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In the Court of Exchequer at Westminster, Michaelmas Term, 27th Victoria ...

Alexandra, vessel - 1864 - 618 pages
...Lordships. He is citing a ARGUMENT. statute respecting manslaughter upon the high seas, and he says, " The rule that penal 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...
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The Exchequer Reports: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in ..., Volume 2

Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, Francis Joseph Coltman - 1866 - 662 pages
...own Government, and of which no nation would be the dupe." (t) The following passage was cited : — "The rule that penal laws are to be construed strictly...the plain principle that the power of punishment is rested in the legislative, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the Court, which...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 26

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 - 1867 - 610 pages
...construction of penal statutes is thus stated by Chief Justice MARSHALL : " The rule that penal statutes are to be construed strictly is, perhaps, not much...It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the right of individuals; and on the plain principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative,...
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