 | New York (State). Commissioners of the Code, David Dudley Field - 1864 - 358 páginas
...construed, has no application p'enai'code. to this Code. All its provisions are to be construed according to the fair import of their terms, with a view to effect its objects and to promote justice. or sections g H- The several sections of this Code which crimes"8 declare certain crimes to be punishable... | |
 | California, California. Commission to Revise the Laws of California - 1871 - 894 páginas
...four preceding sections. HowOodeis SEC. 3554. AH its provisions are to be construed ac'""*' cording to the fair import of their terms, with a view to effect its objects and to promote justice. NOTE. — It is very difficult to properly clothe the ideas sought to bo expressed in the five preceding... | |
 | United States. Circuit Courts, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - 1871 - 648 páginas
...construed — as indeed should all public acts — 'according to the fair import The HP Baldwin. of its terms, with a view to effect its objects and to promote justice.' " The petitioner is entiled to judgment declaring the respondent a bankrupt, on the ground of having paid... | |
 | Nicholas St. John Green - 1879 - 838 páginas
...strictly construed, has no application to this code. All its provisions are to be construed according to the fair import of their terms, with a view to effect its objects, and to promote justice." 1. I have remarked already that there is nothing to be found in the terms or language employed in the... | |
 | California - 1874 - 712 páginas
...strictly construed, has no application to this Code. All its provisions are to be construed according to the fair import of their terms, with a view to effect its objects and to promote justice. NOTE. — It is a rule of law that penal statutes are to bo strictly construed. — 1 Bl. Com., p.... | |
 | 1874 - 802 páginas
...act must be construed — as indeed should all public acts — " according to the fair import of its terms, with a view to effect its objects and to promote justice" The petitioner is entitled tc judgment declaring the respondent a bankrupt, on the ground of having paid... | |
 | California, Theodore Henry Hittell - 1876 - 986 páginas
...strictly construed, has no application to this code. All its provisions are to be construed according to the fair import of their terms, with a view to effect its objects and to promote justice. 13.005. Proi'iifiojis similar to existing laws, how construed. SEC. 5. The provisions of this code,... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1881 - 678 páginas
...strictly construed has no application to this code; all its provisions are to be construed according to the fair import of their terms, with a view to effect its object and to promote justice." "Without the aid of this section we could not give the construction... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1879 - 716 páginas
...strictly construed, has no application to this Code. All its provisions are to be construed according to the fair import of their terms, with a view to...clear of any difficulty arising from the enactment of cj postfaeto laws, which are prohibited by tho Constitution of the United States. But laws changing... | |
 | California - 1879 - 308 páginas
...strictly construed, has no application to this Code. All its provisions are to be construed according to the fair import of their terms, with a view to effect its objects and to promote justice. provisions SEC. 5. The provisions of this Code, so far as they are exiting substantially the same as... | |
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The rule of the common law, that penal statutes are to be strictly construed, has no application to this code. All its provisions are to be construed according to the fair import of their terms, with a view to effect its objects and to promote justice. 
