 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1292 pages
...that the rule Itself is founded upon the respect of the law for the rights of individuals, and upon the plain principle that the power of punishment Is vested in the Legislature and not in the Judicial departments of the government It is unnecessary to multiply authorities... | |
 | Gustav Adolf Endlich - Law - 1888 - 970 pages
...and faithfully, its plain and rational meaning, and to promote its object. It was founded, however, on the tenderness of the law for the rights of individuals, and on the sound principle that it is for the Legislature, not the Court, to deline a crime and ordain its punishment... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1890 - 828 pages
...and faithfully, its plain and rational meaning, and to promote its object. It was founded, however, on the tenderness of the law for the rights of individuals, and on the sound principle that it is for the legislature, not the court, to define a crime and ordain its punishment."... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - Law - 1891 - 836 pages
...withhold the penalty, it will be given the latter construction. Renfroe v. Colquitt, 74 Ga. 619. 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... | |
 | Henry Hardcastle - Law - 1892 - 748 pages
...Jlnnfhigton v. A/trill (1892), 8 Times LR 341. (u) Ante, p. 112. purpose." This rule is said to be " founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights...principle that the power of punishment is vested in the Legislature, and not in the judicial department, for it is the Legislature, not the Court, which is... | |
 | New York (State). Courts, Francis Blaine Delehanty (Reporter), Austin B. Griffin (Reporter), Robert George Scherer (Reporter), Edward Jordan Dimock (Reporter), Joseph Albert Lawson (Reporter), Charles Cook Lester (Reporter), William Van Rensselaer Erving (Reporter), Louis J. Rezzemini (Reporter) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 752 pages
...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 of penal, as well as other statutes. This is true. But this... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1164 pages
...penal laws are to be construed strictly is, perhaps, not much 1еян old than construction itself. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the...legislative, not in the judicial, department. It is thf legislature, not the court, which is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment. It is said that,... | |
 | 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 - 1894 - 776 pages
...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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1210 pages
...within the reason of the statute, said that the rule that penal statutes are to be construed strictly Is founded "on the tenderness of the law for the rights...the power of punishment is vested in the legislative department, not in the judicial department It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define... | |
| |
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... 
