 | Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1828 - 434 pages
...statutes as old and well established as law itself and must be always borne in mind by Courts and Juries. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights of individuals verdict accordingly. At the same time it is our duty to gay, that it a in perfect accordance with the... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit), Henry Baldwin - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 670 pages
...statutes as old and well established as law itself, and must be always borne in mind by courts and juries. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights of individuals, and on the plain and universal principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislature, and not in the judicial... | |
 | Dueling - 1846 - 110 pages
...says Chief Justice Marshall, "that penal laws should be construed strictly, is perhaps not much 'ess old than construction itself. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights of ind : viduals, . and on the plain principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislature,... | |
 | Alexandra, vessel - 1864 - 618 pages
...Lordships. He is citing a ARGUMENT. statute respecting manslaughter upon the high seas, and he says, " The rule that penal laws are to be construed strictly is, perhaps, '".' ^y> " not much less old than construction itself. It is founded on " the tenderness of the law... | |
 | 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
...construction of penal statutes is thus stated by Chief Justice MARSHALL : " The rule that penal statutes are to be construed strictly is, perhaps, not much...It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the right of individuals; and on the plain principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1870 - 764 pages
...trouble your lordships. Не is citing a statute respecting manslaughter upon the high seas, and ho says: "The rule that penal laws are to be construed strictly is. perhaps, not much less old than couetructiou itself. It i» founded ou the tenderness of the law for the rights of individuals, and... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1250 pages
...Chief Justice Marshall, in the early case of United States v. Wiltberger, 5 Wheat. 70, 5 L. Ed. 37, declared the scope of Judicial authority in administering...old than construction itself. It is founded on the tenderuess of the law for the rights of individuals; and on the plain principle that the power of punishment... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 2100 pages
...the first challenge. Chief Justice Marshall, in US v. Wiltberger, 5 Wheat. 76, 95, 96 (5 L. Ed. 37), said : "The rule that penal laws are to be construed...perhaps not much less old than construction Itself * * * to determine that a case is within the intention of the statute Its language must authorize us... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 512 pages
...must be considered within the letter of the statute. So if it be within the reason of the statute. The rule that penal laws are to be construed strictly is perhaps not much less old than construction Opinion of the Court—Leonard, J. itself. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights... | |
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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... 
