 | United States - 1907 - 238 pages
...intention of the legislature must govern in the interpreta tion of a statute. It is the legislature and not the court which is to define a crime and ordain its punishment. A plea of autrefois acquit must be upon a prosecution for the same identical offense, and where defendant... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1288 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...the legislative, not In the judicial department." Counsel for appellant suggest at this point the rule that a penal law, even, should be reasonably construed... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1164 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...which is to define a crime and ordain its punishment. * * * The Intention of the Legislature is to be collected from the words they employ. Where there is... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1182 pages
...not gain all that peculiar knowledge of the world which a woman is supposed to acquire bv marriage. on the tenderness of the law for the rights of individuals, and on tin- plain principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial,... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1006 pages
...must be construed strictly against the State and favorably to the liberty of the citizen. The maxim is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights of indivduals, and on the plain principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislature and... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1364 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 law-maker must govern in the construction of penal, as well as other statutes. This is true. But this... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1280 pages
...must be construed strictly against the state and favorably to the liberty of the citizen. The maxim Is 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. No man Incurs a penalty unless the act which subjects... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1132 pages
...must be construed strictly against the state and favorably to the liberty of the citizen. The maxim is 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. No man Incurs a penalty unless the act which subjects... | |
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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... 
