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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. "
United States Circuit Courts of Appeals Reports: With Key-number Annotations ... - Page 156
1904
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme ..., Volume 5; Volume 18

United States. Supreme Court - 1820 - 622 pages
...Id. 51 ?5. The Ordinance ofBilboa. Id. 52 M. MANSLAUGHTER. .SVe ADMIRALTY, 1. 2. P PENAL STATUTES. Though penal laws are to be construed strictly, yet...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....
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme ..., Volume 5; Volume 18

United States. Supreme Court - 1820 - 620 pages
...Wampoa, about 100 yards from the shore, in four and a half fathoms water, and below low water mark. Though penal laws are to be construed strictly ; yet...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...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 5

United States. Supreme Court - 1820 - 662 pages
...Wampoa, about 100 yards from the shore, in four and a half fathoms water, 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, as well as other statutes, and they are not...
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The Register of Pennsylvania: Devoted to the Preservation of Facts ..., Volume 5

Samuel Hazard - 1828 - 434 pages
...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...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 2

United States. Supreme Court, Richard Peters - 1829 - 758 pages
...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....
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Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania, Volume 5

1830 - 522 pages
...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...
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Reports of Cases Determined in the Circuit Court of the United States, in ...

United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit), Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 670 pages
...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...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 15

Vermont. Supreme Court - 1844 - 820 pages
...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,...
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The New-York Legal Observer, Volume 3

Samuel Owen - 1845 - 434 pages
...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,...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Argued and Determined in the ..., Volume 6

Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1846 - 628 pages
...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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