 | Joseph Tate - Law - 1841 - 992 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Dueling - 1846 - 110 pages
...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, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...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 the legislature, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature and not the court which is to define... | |
 | Samuel Owen - Law - 1849 - 404 pages
...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 -the legislature, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1852 - 616 pages
...will always remain so."* This rule, however, which is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights of individuals, and on the plain principle...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 - Constitutional history - 1857 - 770 pages
...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 the legislature, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1858 - 1012 pages
...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 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 pages
..." 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...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... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 610 pages
...not much less old than construction itself. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the right of individuals; and on the plain principle that the...which is to define a crime and ordain its punishment. * * The intention of the legislature is to be collected from the Rhode «. Green. words they employ.... | |
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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... 
