 | United States. Supreme Court - 1874 - 726 páginas
...statutory penalty, the statute must receive a strict, that is, a literal construction. The defendant is not to be subjected to a penalty unless the words of the statute plainly impose it. The question, therefore, is whether the thirtieth section of the act... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - 1963 - 938 páginas
...provision.4 It restated the doctrines that "penal statutes are to be construed strictly" and that one "is not to be subjected to a penalty unless the words of the statute plainly impose it." s The majority could find nothing in the statute to authorize the treatment... | |
 | 1874 - 778 páginas
...statutory penalty, the statute must receive a strict, that is, a literal construction. The defendant is not to be subjected to a penalty unless the words of the statute plainly impose it. The question therefore is, whether the thirtieth section of the act... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1878 - 1018 páginas
...statutory penalty, the statute must receive a strict, that is, a literal construction. The defendant is not to be subjected to a penalty unless the words of the statute plainly impose it. The question, therefore, is whether the thirtieth section of the act... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1905 - 700 páginas
...would disregard the elementary rule that a penalty is not to be readily implied, and on the contrary that a person or corporation is not to be subjected to a penalty unless the words of the statute plainly impose it. Tiffany v. National Bank of Missouri, 18 Wall. 409, 410. If it had been... | |
 | 1905 - 844 páginas
...would disregard the elementary rule that a penalty is not to be readily implied, and, on the contrary, that a person or corporation is not to be subjected to a penalty unless the words of the statute plainly impose it. Tiffany v. National Bank, 18 Wall. 409, 410, 21 L. ed. 862, 863. If... | |
 | Evans Holbrook, Ralph William Aigler - 1915 - 860 páginas
...would disregard the elementary rule that a penalty is not to be readily implied, and, on the contrary, that a person or corporation is not to be subjected to a penalty unless the words of the statute plainly impose it. Tiffany v. National Bank, .18 "Wall. 409, 410, 21 L. ed. 862, 863. If... | |
 | Harold Remington - 1915 - 1150 páginas
...would disregard the elementary rule that a penalty is not to be readily implied, and, on the contrary, that a person or corporation is not to be subjected to a penalty unless the words of the statute plainly impose it. Tiffany r. National Bank, 18 Wall. 409, 410, 21 L. Ed. 862, 863. If... | |
 | 1917 - 736 páginas
...would disregard the elementary rule that a penalty Is not to be readily implied, and on the contrary that a person or corporation Is not to be subjected...unless the words of a statute plainly impose it." As the Supreme Court has shown, the Bankruptcy Act of 1898 contains no language forfeiting the whole... | |
 | 1905 - 540 páginas
...would disregard the elementary rule that a penalty is not to be readily implied, and, on the contrary, that a person or corporation is not to be subjected to a penalty unless the words of the statute plainly impose it. Tiffany v. National Bank, 18 Wall. 409, 410, 21 L. Ed. 862, 863. If... | |
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penal statutes are to be construed strictly," Federal Communications Comm'n v. American Broadcasting Co., 347 US 284, 296, and that one "is not to be subjected to a penalty unless the words of the statute plainly impose it, 
