 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 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...which is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment. — United States v. Wiltberger, 5 Wheaton, 95. p. 550, 1. 24. '- It is no grace to a judge first to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 694 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...which is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment. — United States v. Wiltberger, 5 Wheaton, 95. p. 550, 1. 24. " It is no grace to a judge first to... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 672 pages
...legislature," says Chief Justice MARSHALL, in United Siaten v. Willberger, Lowenberg v. The People. " not the court, which is to define a crime and ordain its punishment." What is this case? The legislature has defined the crime of murder in the first degree, but made no... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1870 - 764 pages
...perhaps, not much less old than couetructiou itself. It i» founded ou the tenderness of the law for the rights of individuals, and on the plain principle...the power of punishment is vested in the legislative and not in the judicial ilqiartment. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to detine ¡i crime... | |
 | United States. Department of State - Alabama claims - 1870 - 756 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...the 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... | |
 | United States. Department of State - Alabama claims - 1870 - 748 pages
...individuals, and on the plain principle that the 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 eria&e and to ordain its punishment." Then there follow these words: "It is said that, notwithstanding... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1874 - 700 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...which is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment. — United States o. Wiltberger, 5 Wheaton, 95. p. 550, 1. 24. " It is no grace to a judge first to... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional law - 1874 - 750 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... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 512 pages
...construction Opinion of the Court—Leonard, J. itself. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights of individuals; and on the plain principle...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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 784 pages
...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 legislative,...punishment. It is said, that notwithstanding this rule, the intention.of the law-maker must govern in the construction of penal, as well as other statutes. This... | |
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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... 
