 | Nevada. Supreme Court - 1880 - 512 halaman
...individuals; and on the plain principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature,...which is to define a crime and ordain its punishment. * * The intention of the legislature is to be collected from the words they employ. Where there is... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1882 - 784 halaman
...individuals: and on the plain principle'that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature,...punishment. It is said, that notwithstanding this rule, the intention.of the law-maker must govern in the construction of penal, as well as other statutes. This... | |
 | 1894 - 1266 halaman
...Individuals, and on the plain principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial, department. It is the legislature,...the court, which Is to define a crime, and ordain It» punishment." "Though penal laws are to be construed strictly, they are not to be construed so... | |
 | California. Bureau of Labor Statistics - 1912 - 676 halaman
...quotes the language of Mr. Chief Justice Marshall in United State» vs. Wiltberger, 5 Wheat. 7(i. .". L. Ed. 37, as follows: The rule that penal laws are...new, independent rule which subverts the old. It is а modification of the ancient maxim, and amounts to this : That, though penal statutes are to be construed... | |
 | 1904 - 646 halaman
...individuals; and on the plain principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature,...is to define a crime and ordain its punishment. It i» said, that notwithstanding this rule the intention of the lawmaker must govern in the construction... | |
 | United States. Circuit Courts, Albert J. Brunner - 1884 - 772 halaman
...opinion I am expressing is in the words which Congress has used in this declaration of its purpose. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define a crime and ordain its punishment; and the intention of that legislature is to be found in the words they employ. The first thing which... | |
 | 1885 - 1156 halaman
...individuals; and on the plain principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial, department. It is the legislature,...the construction of penal as well as other statutes. This is true. But this is not a new independent rule, which subverts the old. It is a modification... | |
 | Robert Stewart Morrison - 1885 - 760 halaman
...individuals, and on the plain principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature,...which is to define a crime and ordain its punishment. * * The intention of the legislature is to be collected from the woids they employ. Where there is... | |
 | 1894 - 1172 halaman
...individuals, and on the plain principle that the. power of punishment is vested in the legislature, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature,...which is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment. Theintention of the legislature Is to be collected from the words they employ. Where there is no ambiguity... | |
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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 in... 
