 | Illinois. Appellate Court, Edwin Burritt Smith, Martin L. Newell - 1892 - 718 strani
...stated as a safe proposition that although penal statutes are to be construed strictly they should not be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the- legislature. No such construction should be given as would enable parties acting under the law to so conduct themselves... | |
 | New York (State). Courts, Francis Blaine Delehanty (Reporter), Austin B. Griffin (Reporter), Robert George Scherer (Reporter), Edward Jordan Dimock (Reporter), Joseph Albert Lawson (Reporter), Charles Cook Lester (Reporter), William Van Rensselaer Erving (Reporter), Louis J. Rezzemini (Reporter) - 1903 - 752 strani
...independent rule 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...to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature. This maxim is not to be so applied as to narrow the words of the statute to the exclusion of Supreme... | |
 | 1893 - 1260 strani
...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. Ü. 8. v. Lacher, 134 ü. S. 624, 10 Sup. Ct. Rep. 626. It seems to be written in these statutes, with... | |
 | Indiana. Appellate Court - 1895 - 784 strani
...Ind. 46. As said by an Indiana law writer: "Though penal laws are to receive a strict construction, they are not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious or expressed intentof the Legislature." Gillett's Crim. Law, section 20. It is true, as appellant contends,... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1896 - 1018 strani
...consideration aforesaid," includes and was intended to include every State, parochial and municipal officer. Though penal laws are to be construed strictly, they...not to be so applied as to narrow the words of the stature to the exclusion of cases which those words, in their ordinary acceptation, or in that sense... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold, Arnold LeBell - 1898 - 772 strani
...suppress the mischief and advance the remedy." Coster v. Lorillard, 14 Wend. 297. " Even penal statutes are not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature." US v. Wiltberger, 5 Wheat. 76; Manitowoc Co. v. Truman, 91 Wis. 12. See, also, US v. Freeman, 3 How.... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1899 - 996 strani
...suppress the mischief and advance the remedy": Coster v. Lorillard, 14 Wend. 297. "Even penal statutes are not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature": United States v. Wiltberger, 5 Wheat. 76; Manitowoc Co. v. Truman, 91 Wis. 12. See, also, Unitrd Stales... | |
 | 1899 - 914 strani
...says in Ball v. State, 3 Ga. 18, "although penal laws are to be construed strictly, they are not to bo construed so strictly as to 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... | |
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It is a modification of the ancient .maxim, and amounts to this : 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... 
