 | United States. Supreme Court - 1820 - 662 σελίδες
...«« . I f construction of is perhaps not much less old than construction itself. p*nal """»«• It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the...is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the Court, which is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1820 - 620 σελίδες
...old than construction itself. Pcnal «t«i»t«. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the V rights of individuals ; and on the plain principle...is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the Court, which is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment.... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1828 - 434 σελίδες
...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 - 1837 - 670 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Joseph Tate - 1841 - 992 σελίδες
...inference or implication, per Fleming, J. Fell v. Overseers of Jlvgusta, 3 Munf. 507. The rule that penal laws are to be construed strictly, is perhaps not...is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment.... | |
 | 1846 - 110 σελίδες
...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,... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 σελίδες
...considered as within the letter, so if it be within the reason of the statute. The rule that penal laws are to be construed strictly, is perhaps not...principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislature, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature and not the court which is to define... | |
 | Samuel Owen - 1849 - 404 σελίδες
...subject is laid down by Ch. J. Marshall with his usual force and clearness.t " The rule that penal laws are to be construed strictly, is perhaps not...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... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1852 - 616 σελίδες
...the personal liberty of the subject, and I hope will always remain so."* This rule, however, which is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights...power of punishment is vested in the legislative, and not in the judicial department, must not be so applied as to narrow the words of the statute to... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 σελίδες
...United States had no jurisdiction under the 12th section ; and the court said, — The rule that penal laws are to be construed strictly, is perhaps not...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... | |
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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... 
