To determine that a case is within the intention of a statute, its language must authorize us to say so. It would be dangerous indeed to carry the principle, that a case which is within the reason or mischief of a statute is within its provisions, so... Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Indiana - Σελίδα 239των Indiana. Supreme Court, Charles Frederick Remy, George Washington Self, Philip Zoercher, William H. Adams, Mrs. Edward Franklin White, Emma Mary May - 1918Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| Gene Healy - 2004 - 200 σελίδες
...citizen who honestly believed his conduct to be lawful. In 1820 Chief Justice John Marshall warned, "It would be dangerous, indeed, to carry the principle, that a case that is within the reason or mischief of a statute, is within its provisions, so far as to punish a... | |
| Jerome Hall - 2010 - 656 σελίδες
...Wiltberger: "To determine that a case is within the intention of a statute, its language must authorize us to say so. It would be dangerous, indeed, to carry...atrocity, or of kindred character, with those which are enumerated."44 As stated, this does not imply that the purpose or policy of a penal statute may be... | |
| Gustav Adolf Endlich - 2005 - 942 σελίδες
...Court to say so ; but it is not admissible to carry the principle that a. case which is within the mischief of a statute is within its provisions, so far as to punish a crime not specified in the statute, because it is of equal atrocity or of a kindred character with those which... | |
| Iowa. Supreme Court - 1905 - 960 σελίδες
...suggest. To determine that a case is within the intention of a statute, its language must authorize us to say so. It would be dangerous, indeed, to carry...kindred character with those which are enumerated. The rule thus announced by the great jurist has been the guide to the courts and text-writers ever since... | |
| 1898 - 958 σελίδες
...suggest. To determine that a case is within the intention of a statute, its language must authorize us to say so. It would be dangerous indeed to carry...kindred character with those which are enumerated. If this principle has ever been recognized in expounding criminal law, it has been in cases of considerable... | |
| Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - 1895 - 778 σελίδες
...construction. ... To determine that a case is within the intention of a statute, its language must authorize us to say so. It would be dangerous, indeed, to carry...provisions, so far as to punish a crime not enumerated in a statute, because it is of equal atrocity or of kindred character with those which are enumerated."... | |
| Missouri Bar Association - 1908 - 330 σελίδες
...that penal laws are to be construed strictly is perhaps not much less old than construction itself. It would be dangerous indeed to carry the principle that a case which is within the reason and mischief of a statute is within its provisions so far as to punish a crime not enumerated in the... | |
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