 | 1900 - 884 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... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1900 - 1044 páginas
...But, as Judge Warner, quoting from Chief Justice Marshall, says in Hall v. State, 3 Ga. 18, "although penal laws are to be construed strictly, they are...defeat the obvious intention of the legislature." And in Sanders v. State, 74 Ga. 82, we find the following: "Courts -are not very astute in shielding... | |
 | William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall - 1900 - 702 páginas
...v. Wiltberger, 5 Wheat. (US) 76. 1" State v. Bryant, 90 Mo. 534, 1-' State v. Bryant, ?0 Mo. 534, i construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature. The courts are bound to give effect to the plain and obvious meaning of a statute, and not narrow it by... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1901 - 1032 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... | |
 | 1913 - 1304 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.'" (United States v. Lacher, 134 US, 624.) This law was passed to meet a condition of danger incidental... | |
 | 1914 - 264 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." (See also Johnson v. United States, 196 US 1, and United States v. Bitty, 208 US, 393.) The commission... | |
 | 1914 - 784 páginas
...denounces, will not sustain a conviction under It." But it is equally well settled that penal laws are not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the Legislature. United States v. Lacher, 134 US 624, 628, 10 Sup. Ct. 625, 33 L. Ed. 1080; United States v. Corbett,... | |
 | Indiana Bureau of Legislative Information - 1914 - 40 páginas
...language must authorize u« to say so. * * * though penal laws are to be construed strictly they ore not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature : * * * nothing is to be regarded as included within them that is not within their letter as well as... | |
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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... 
