 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 852 pages
...that the judgment of the court is to be made up. The object in construing penal, Opinion of the court. as well as other statutes, is to ascertain the legislative...exclusion of what the legislature intended to embrace; but that intention must be gathered from the words, and they must be such as to leave no room for a reasonable... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1870 - 840 pages
...that the judgment of the court is to be made up. The object in construing penal, Opinion of the court. as well as other statutes, is to ascertain the legislative...exclusion of what the legislature intended to embrace; but that intention must be gathered from the words, and they must be such as to leave no room for a reasonable... | |
 | Sir Peter Benson Maxwell - Law - 1875 - 500 pages
...context, and promotes in the fullest manner the policy and objects of the Legislature (c). The paramount object, in construing penal as well as other statutes, is to ascertain the legislative intent ; and the rule of strict construction is not violated by permitting the words to have their full meaning,... | |
 | Alexander James Dallas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 856 pages
...intention of the legislature ought to be regarded." In United States v. Hartwell, 6 Wall. 385, it is said, " The object in construing penal as well as...other statutes is to ascertain the legislative intent. The words must not be narrowed to the exclusion of what the legislature intended to embrace, but that... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - Actions and defenses - 1885 - 1126 pages
...important. It is by the light which each contributes that the judgment of the court is to be made up. The object in construing penal, as well as other statutes,...of what the Legislature intended to embrace ; but that intention must be gathered from the words, and they must be such as to leave no room for a reasonable... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1156 pages
...important. It is by the light which each contributes that the judgment of the court is to be made up. The object in construing penal, as well as other statutes,...exclusion of what the legislature intended to embrace; but that intention must bo gathered from the words, and they must be such as to leave no room for a reasonable... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 892 pages
...the legislature ought to be regarded." In United States v. Hartwell, 6 Wall., 3S5, it is said: "Tho object in construing penal as well as other statutes is to ascertain the legislative intent. The words must not be narrowed to the exclusion of what the legislature intended to embrace, but that... | |
 | Illinois State Board of Health - Public health - 1886 - 716 pages
...important. It is by the light which each contributes that the judgment of the court is to be made up. The object in construing penal, as well as other statutes,...exclusion of what the legislature intended to embrace ; hut that intention must be gathered from the words, and they must he such as to leave no room for... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1246 pages
...However, as said by the court in United States v. Hartwell, 6 Wall. (US) 385, 395, 18 L. Ed. 830 : "The object In construing penal as well as other statutes...constitutes the law. If the language be clear, it is ooiidusive. There can be no construction where there is nothing to construe." So in the present case... | |
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The words must not be narrowed to the exclusion of what the legislature intended to embrace ; but that intention must be gathered from the words, and they must be such as to leave no room for a reasonable doubt upon the subject. 
