| United States. Supreme Court - 1820 - 622 páginas
...principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative. not in the judicial department. It is the legislature. not the Court, which is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment. It is said, that notwithstanding this rule, the inten tion of the law maker must govern in the construction... | |
| Joseph Tate - 1841 - 992 páginas
...principle, that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment. It would be dangerous indeed, to carry the principle, that a case which is within the reason or mischief... | |
| Samuel Owen - 1849 - 404 páginas
...principle that the power of punishment is vested in -the legislature, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment." And again, "this maxim is not to be so applied as to narrow the words of the statute to the exclusion... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 páginas
...principle, that the power of punishment is vested in the legislature, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define a crime and ordain its punishment. It is said that, notwithstanding this rule, the intention of the lawmaker must govern in its construction... | |
| Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1858 - 1012 páginas
...principle, that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial, department. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment- It is said, that notwithstanding this rule, the intention of the lawmaker must govern in the construction... | |
| Alexandra, vessel - 1864 - 618 páginas
...principle that the power of punishment is vested in " the legislative and not in the judicial department. It is the " legislature, not the Court, which is to define a crime and to " ordain its punishment." Then there follow these words, " It " is said that, notwithstanding this... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, Francis Joseph Coltman - 1866 - 662 páginas
...principle that the power of punishment is rested in the legislative, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the Court, which is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment. It is said that, notwithstanding this rale, the intention of the lawmaker must govern in the construction... | |
| Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1867 - 610 páginas
...principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define a crime and ordain its punishment. * * The intention of the legislature is to be collected from the Rhode «. Green. words they employ.... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 páginas
...principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment. — United States v. Wiltberger, 5 Wheaton, 95. p. 550, 1. 24. '- It is no grace to a judge first to... | |
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