"statute" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The rule that penal statutes are to be construed strictly does not permit such a construction as defeats the obvious intention of the legislature.
- Read the penal statutes.
- If penal statutes are overly vague, it is argued that the state's discretion to prosecute becomes too broad, and potentially subject to abuse through selective enforcement.
- Echoing the resolutions of the Birmingham Committee, the Midland District meeting issued a sweeping condemnation of all penal statutes against Dissenters.
- Mr. Mashberg said some points were "absolutely frivolous," meritless and distinguished by misapplications of penal statutes to a civil case.
- "There was no private right of action to sue for violation of these penal statutes."
- Nevertheless, it is accepted that, appearing as they do in a penal statute, they fall to be construed narrowly rather than widely.
- "No one may be required at peril of life, liberty or property to speculate as to the meaning of penal statutes."
- The practice of it was subjected to severe penal statutes and priests performing its rites were rigorously penalized.
- In 1688 he wrote Jus regium Coronae, a learned defence of James's action in dispensing with the penal statutes.
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