 To determine that a case is within the intention of a statute, its language must authorize us to say so. It would be dangerous indeed to carry the principle, that a case which is within the reason or mischief of a statute is within its provisions, so...  Lawyers' Reports Annotated - Page 2671909Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 662 pages
...suggest. To determine that a case is within the intention of a statute, its language must authorise us to say so. It would be dangerous, indeed, to carry...kindred character, with those which are enumerated. If this principle has ever been recognized in expounding criminal law, it has been in cases of considerable... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 622 pages
...suggest. To determine that a case is within the intention of a statute, its language must authorise us to say so. It would be dangerous, indeed, to carry the principle, ihat a case which is within the reason or mischief of a statute, is within its provisions, so far as... | |
 | Joseph Tate - Law - 1841 - 992 pages
...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,...mischief of a statute, is within its provisions, so far aa to punish a crime not enumerated in the statute, because it is of equal atrocity, or kindred character,... | |
 | Dueling - 1846 - 110 pages
...department. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define the crime and ordain its punishment. It would be dangerous, indeed, to carry the principle,...in the statute, because it is of equal atrocity or kindred character with those which are enumerated." See 5 Wheat. 95, 96. Accordingly, it is said, that... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...To determine that a case is within the intention of a statute, its language must authorize the court to say so. It would be dangerous indeed to carry the principle that a case that is within the reason or mischiefs of a statute is within its provisions, so far as to punish a... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...1 Stev. Elec. L. (4) 3 Wils. 126. (c) Day, 702. (rf) 1 Wils. folio, 412 ; see also Black. R. 12-26. within its provisions, so far as to punish a crime not enumerated within the statute, because it was of equal atrocity, or of a kindred character with those named in... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...themselves did not suggest. To determine that a case is within the intention of a statute, its language must authorize us to say so. It would be dangerous,...kindred character, with those which are enumerated. If this principle has ever been recognized in expounding criminal law, it has been in cases of considerable... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1858 - 1012 pages
...themselves did not suggest. To determine that a case is within the intention of a statute, its language must authorize us to say so. It would be dangerous...kindred character, with those which are enumerated. If this principle has ever been recognized in expounding criminal law, it has been in cases of considerable... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 792 pages
...construction. It would be dangerous to carry the principle that a case which is within the reasons or mischief of a statute is within its provisions, so far as to punish a crime not enumerated within the statute, because it is of equal atrocity or kindred character with those which are enumerated.... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional law - 1874 - 750 pages
...themselves did not suggest. To determine that a case is within the intention of a statute, its language must authorize us to say so. It would be dangerous...kindred character, with those which are enumerated. If this principle has ever been recognized in expounding criminal law, it has been in cases of considerable... | |
| |
