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" The case must be a strong one, indeed, which would justify a court in departing from the plain meaning of words, especially in a penal act, in search of an intention which the words themselves did not suggest. "
Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United ... - Page 94
by United States. Supreme Court - 1820
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 451

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1982 - 1050 pages
...be a strong one indeed, which would justify a court in departing from the plain meaning of words ... in search of an intention which the words themselves did not suggest." United States v. Wiltberger, 5 Wheat. 76, 95-96. I respectfully dissent. Syllabus CALIFORNIA ET AL....
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Commentaries on Statute and Constitutional Law and Statutory and ...

E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...which would justify a court in departing from the plain meaning of the words, especially in penal acts, in search of an intention which the words themselves...within the intention of a statute, its language must authorize the court to say so. It would be dangerous indeed to carry the principle that a case that...
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A Treatise on the Rules which Govern the Interpretation and Application of ...

Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...words, there is no room for construction. The case must be a strong one, indeed, which would justify a court in departing from the plain meaning of words,...within the intention of a statute, its language must authorize us to say so. It would be dangerous, indeed, to carry the principle that a case which is...
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Commentaries on the Criminal Law, Volume 1

Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1858 - 1012 pages
...words, there is no room for construction. The case must be a strong one indeed, which would justify a court in departing from the plain meaning of words, especially in a penal act, in search of reason that every man shofllcl be able to know certainly when he is guilty of a crime,1 statutes which...
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A Full and Arranged Digest of the Decisions in Common Law, Equity ..., Volume 2

Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 792 pages
...obviously used them, would comprehend. United Stales v. Wiltberger, 5 Wheat. 76; 4 Cond. Rep. 593. 15. To determine that a case is within the intention of a statute, the language must authorize the construction. It would be dangerous to carry the principle that a case...
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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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 610 pages
...words, there is no room for construction. The case must be a strong one indeed, which would justify a court in departing from the plain meaning of words,...intention which the words themselves did not suggest." The United States v. Wiltberger, 5 Wheat. 76. But an examination of other sections of the same statute...
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Reports of Decisions Rendered in the Circuit and District Courts ..., Volume 2

United States. Circuit Courts, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 648 pages
...words, there is no room for construction. The case must be a strong one, indeed, which would justify a court in departing from the plain meaning of words,...intention which the words themselves did not suggest." Holding these familiar principles in mind, let us consider the clause of the section the meaning of...
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A Treatise on the Rules which Govern the Interpretation and Construction of ...

Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional law - 1874 - 750 pages
...words, there is no room for construction. The case must be a strong one, indeed, which would justify a court in departing from the plain meaning of words,...within the intention of a statute, its language must authorize us to say so. It would be dangerous indeed, to carry the principle that a case which is within...
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The Northwestern Reporter, Volume 94

Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1250 pages
...the obvious intention of the Legislature." "The case must be a strong one indeed, which would justify a court in departing from the plain meaning of words, especially in a penal act." In the light of the foregoing it seems plain that the legislative declaration in section 1810, Kev. St....
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The Federal Reporter, Volume 119

Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1116 pages
...words, there la no room (or construction. The case must be a strong one, Indeed, which would justify a court in departing from the plain meaning of words,...within the Intention of a statute, Its language must .authorize us to say so. It would be dangerous, indeed, to carry the principle that a case which Is...
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