 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1856 - 724 str.
...person aggrieved." It was held in Cotheal v. Branson, (1 Selden, 562,) that a penal law should not be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature. It must be admitted that it was the clear intent of the legislature, in making this section applicable... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 str.
...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 legislature. The maxim is not to be so applied as to narrow tire words of the statute to the exclusion of cases... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1858 - 1012 str.
...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 legislature. The maxim is not to be so applied as to narrow the words of the statute to the exclusion of cases which... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1858 - 724 str.
...Maxims, 51, 58, 59.) Chief Justice Marshall says, " Although penal laws are to be construed strictly, they are not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature.r' (5 Wheat. 76.) Woodworth, justice, in delivering the opinion of the court, in the case... | |
 | Francis Edward Cornwell - 1859 - 702 str.
...title 4, chapter 18 of the first part of the Revised Statutes. And, per PAIGE, .1 ., a penal statute is not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature in passing it. Colheal et al. v. Brower, 1 Seld., 562. 7. Railroad companies. Held, that under the general... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 836 str.
...76 ; 4 Cond. Rep. 593. 232. Though penal laws are to be construed strictly, yet the intention of the legislature must govern in the construction of penal...strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the legisfature. Ibid. 233. In the act of April 30, 1790, ch. 36, the description of places contained in... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 792 str.
...Palmer et al., 3 Wheat. 610; 4 Cond. Rep. 352. 14. 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 words of a statute are not to be narrowed to the exclusion of cases which those words, in their... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 874 str.
...there are others also of this class. As to penal statutes, however, it is to be observed that such laws are not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature. The United States vs. Wiltberger, 5 Wheat. 76. They are to be construed strictly in that sense that... | |
 | Lyttleton Forbes Winslow - 1863 - 788 str.
...meant to provide. "Although I Vna 1 Laws," said Chief Justice Marshall, "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 to the exclusion of cases which... | |
 | Alexandra, vessel - 1864 - 618 str.
...the ancient " maxim, and it 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 Legislature. The maxim " is not to be so applied as to narrow the words of the sta" tute to the exclusion of cases~... | |
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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. 
