 It would certainly be dangerous if the legislature could set a net large enough to catch all possible offenders, and leave it to the courts to step inside and say who could be rightfully detained, and who should be set at large.  Albany Law Journal - Page 1531883Full view - About this book
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1872
...citizens of the United States, while exercising the elective franchise, on account of their race, etc. It would certainly be dangerous if the legisla,ture...catch all possible offenders, and leave it to the courts/to step inside and s.ay who could be rightfully detained and who should be set at large. This... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 892 pages
...ยง 1572. The courts cannot construe a law so as to limit its operation to the constitutional limits. It would certainly be dangerous if the legislature...say who could be rightfully detained, and who should beset at large. This would, to some extent, substitute the judicial for the legislative department... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 676 pages
...man should be able to know with certainty when he is committing a crime. ' ' Continuing, the court said : "It would certainly be dangerous if the Legislature...for the legislative department of the government." But it is insisted that because this is not a case of prosecution for crime that the doctrine of those... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 626 pages
...limitation into a penal statute so as to make it specific, when, as expressed, it is general only. " It would certainly be dangerous if the legislature...the judicial for the legislative department of the goverment. . . . To limit this statute in the manner now asked for would be to make a new law, not... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1084 pages
...limitation into a penal statute, so as to make it specific, when, as expressed, it is general only. It would certainly be dangerous if the legislature...to the courts to step inside, and say who could be rightly detained, and who could be set at large. This would, to some extent, substitute the judicial... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1070 pages
...limitation into a penal statute, so as to make it specific, when, as expressed, it is general only. It would certainly be dangerous if the legislature...to the courts to step inside, and say who could be rightly detained, and who could be set at large. This would, to some extent, substitute the judicial... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1062 pages
...limitation into a penal statute, so as to make it specific, when, as expressed, it is general only. It would certainly be dangerous if the legislature could set a net large enough to catch nil possible offenders, and leave it to the courts to step inside, and say who could he rightly detained,... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1130 pages
...limitation into a penal statute, so as to make it specific, when, as expressed, it is general only. It would certainly be dangerous if the legislature...catch all possible offenders, and leave it to the cqurts to step inside and say who could be rightfully detained, and who should be set at large. This... | |
 | Ezra Parmalee Prentice - Corporation law - 1907 - 270 pages
...how shall the courts fix such a standard ? "It would certainly be dangerous if the legislature should set a net large enough to catch all possible offenders and leave it to the court to step inside and say who might rightfully be detained, and who should be set at large. That... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - Neurology - 1910 - 780 pages
...Federal Supreme Court still subordinated the will of its judges to constitutional law. Then it was said : " It would certainly be dangerous if the legislature...inside and say who could be rightfully detained and who shall be set at large."7 But that time is past, in many fields of jurisprudence we are the helpless... | |
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