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" ... not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature. The maxim is not to be so applied as to narrow the words of the statute to the exclusion of cases which those words, in their ordinary acceptation, or in that sense... "
Reports of Cases Determined in the Circuit Court of the United States, in ... - Página 101
por United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit), Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 651 páginas
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volumen5

United States. Supreme Court - 1820 - 662 páginas
...which subverts the old. It is a modification of the ancient maxim, and amounts to this, that though penal laws are to be construed strictly, they are...be so applied as to narrow the words of the statute to the exclusion of cases which those words, in their ordinary acceptation, or in that sense in which...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme ..., Volumen5;Volumen18

United States. Supreme Court - 1820 - 622 páginas
...intention of the legislature must govern in the construction of penal, as well as other statutes, and they are not to be construed so Strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature. In the act of April 30th, 1790, c. 36. the description of placet contained in the 8tb section, within...
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The Register of Pennsylvania: Devoted to the Preservation of Facts ..., Volumen5

Samuel Hazard - 1828 - 434 páginas
...is the Legislature EC not the Court whioh is to define a crime and ordain the punishment. But though penal laws are to be construed strictly — they are...the Legislature. The maxim is not to be so applied us to narrow the words of the statute so as to excluded cases which those words in their ordinary acceptation...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volumen2

United States. Supreme Court, Richard Peters - 1829 - 758 páginas
...words of the act require it. Even penal laws, which, it is said, should be strictly construed, ought not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature. This was laid down as a rule by this Court, in the case of the United States vs. Wiltberger, 5 Wh&al....
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Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania, Volumen5

1830 - 522 páginas
...is the Legislature & not the Court which is to define a crime and ordain the punishment. But though penal laws are to be construed strictly — they are...applied as to narrow the words of the statute so as to excluded cases which those words in their ordinary acceptation or in that sense in which the Legislature...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Court of the ..., Volumen5

United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit), William Powell Mason - 1831 - 636 páginas
...the Supreme Court of the United States, as well as in this Court, it has been declared, that though penal laws are to be construed strictly, they are not to be construed so as to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature. 5 Wheat. 76-94 ; 1 Gallis. 114. It is therefore...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volumen15

Vermont. Supreme Court - 1844 - 820 páginas
...comprehended both in the statute. 6. Though penal statutes should be construed strictly, yet they'should not be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature. United States v. Wiltbergen, 5 Wheaton's R. 76. The opinion of the court was delivered by BENNETT,...
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The New-York Legal Observer, Volumen3

Samuel Owen - 1845 - 434 páginas
...by the report, that while it was true that penal statutes were to be construed strictly, they were " not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature, when that intention can be collected from the words used in the act." This position, in its just sense,...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Argued and Determined in the ..., Volumen6

Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1846 - 628 páginas
...under the statute. Penal statutes must be construed strictly, 1 Black. Com. 88. Pennl statutes, though not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature, must not be so construed as to embrace any thing which was not clearly and unquestionably intended...
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Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Argued and Determined in the ..., Volumen3

Georgia. Supreme Court - 1848 - 712 páginas
...Hall rt. the State. Chief Justice Marshall, delivering the opinion of the court, says, " that although penal laws are to be construed strictly, they are...be so applied as to narrow the words of the statute to the exclusion of cases which those words, in their ordinary acceptation, or in that sense in which...
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