 | United States. Supreme Court - 1820 - 662 sider
...and below low water mark. Though penal laws are to be construed strictly ; yet the intention of tbc legislature must govern in the construction of penal,...to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature. In the act of April 30th, 1790, c. 36. the description of places contained in the 8th section, within... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1820 - 622 sider
...MANSLAUGHTER. .SVe ADMIRALTY, 1. 2. P PENAL STATUTES. Though penal laws are to be construed strictly, yet the intention of the legislature must govern in...construction of penal, as well as other statutes, <md they are not to be construed &o strictiy a. to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1820 - 620 sider
...and a half fathoms water, and below low water mark. Though penal laws are to be construed strictly ; yet the intention of the legislature must govern in the construction of penal, as well at other statutes, and they are not to be construed to strictly as to defeat the obvious intention... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1828 - 434 sider
...to define a crime and ordain the punishment. But though penal laws are to be construed strictly — they are not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the Legislature. The maxim is not to be so applied us to narrow the words of the statute so as to excluded cases which... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Richard Peters - 1829 - 758 sider
...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.... | |
 | 1830 - 522 sider
...to define a crime and ordain the punishment. But though penal laws are to be construed strictly — they are 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 so as to excluded cases which... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit), Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 670 sider
...and ordain the punishment. 5 Wheat. 95, 96. But though the penal laws are to be construed strictly, they are not to be construed so strictly as to de-feat the obvious intention of the legislature. The maxim is not to be so applied as to narrow the words of the statute, so as to exclude cases which... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - 1844 - 820 sider
...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, J. —... | |
 | Samuel Owen - 1845 - 434 sider
...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,... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1846 - 628 sider
...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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That, though penal laws are to be construed strictly, they are not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature. 
