 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 620 pages
...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,...crime not enumerated in the statute, because it is of equal atrocity, or of kindred character, with those which are enumerated. If this principle has ever... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 622 pages
...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...crime not enumerated in the statute, because it is of equal atrocity, or of kindred character, with those which are enumerated. If this principle has ever... | |
 | 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,...crime not enumerated in the statute, because it is of equal atrocity or kindred character with those which are enumerated." See 5 Wheat. 95, 96. Accordingly,... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...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...a crime not enumerated in the statute, because it was of equal atrocity, or of a kindred character with those which were enumerated. If this principle... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...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... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...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...crime not enumerated in the statute, because it is of equal atrocity, or of kindred character, with those which are enumerated. If this principle has ever... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1858 - 1012 pages
...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,...crime not enumerated in the statute, because it is of equal atrocity, or of kindred character, with those which are enumerated. If this principle has ever... | |
 | 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
...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...crime not enumerated in the statute, because it is of equal" atrocity, or of kindred character, with those which are enumerated. If this principle has ever... | |
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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 far as to punish a crime not enumerated in the statute, because it is of equal atrocity or of kindred character... 
