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" Although it is not likely that a criminal will carefully consider the text of the law before he murders or steals, it is reasonable that a fair warning should be given to the world in language that the common world will understand, of what the law intends... "
Foreign Agents Registration Act Amendments: Hearings Before the Subcommittee ... - Page 22
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1966 - 140 pages
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on the Judiciary

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Courts - 1966 - 1362 pages
...capacity and principal, and limits his activities to those customarily performed by attorneys. V. GEXERAL CONCLUSIONS To summarize, the defect of the bill,...have indicated today, and as many commentators have pointed out, the registration requirements of the act are in many cases extremely burdensome. In addition,...
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Working Papers of the National Commission on Reform of Federal Criminal Laws ...

United States. National Commission on Reform of Federal Criminal Laws - Criminal law - 1970 - 796 pages
...that a fair warning should be given to the world in language that the common world will understand, of what the law intends to do if a certain line is passed. To make the warning fair, so far as possible the line should be clear. When a rule of conduct is laid...
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Handgun crime control, 1975-1976: hearings before the Subcommittee to ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency - Firearms - 1976 - 1308 pages
...First, "a fair warning should be given to the world in language that the common world will understand, of what the law intends to do if a certain line is passed. To make the warning fair, so far as possible the line should be clear." McBoyle v. United Statet, 283...
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Nomination of an Associate Judge: Hearing Before the Committee on the ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia - Judges - 1976 - 1114 pages
...that a fair warning should be given to the world In language that the common world will understand, of what the law intends to do if a certain line is passed. To make the warning fair, so far as possible the line should be clear. * • • [Therefore criminal...
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International Law Reports, Volume 61

E. Lauterpacht - Law - 1981 - 732 pages
...First, "a fair warning should be given to the world in language that the common world will understand, of what the law intends to do if a certain line is passed. To make the warning fair, so far as possible the line should be clear." "* Second, because of the seriousness...
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Reform of the Federal Criminal Laws: Hearings Before the Committee on the ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Criminal law - 1981 - 1224 pages
...that a fair warning should be given to the world in language that the common world will understand of what the law intends to do if a certain line is passed. To make the warning fair, so far as possible, thr. line should be clear. Id. at 27. , 112.' SHe, eg,...
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The Least Dangerous Branch: The Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics

Alexander M. Bickel - Law - 1986 - 322 pages
...that a fair warning should be given to the world in language that the common world will understand of what the law intends to do if a certain line is passed."62 And there are situations in which people do read the penal code, or have it professionally...
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Learning Legal Reasoning: Briefing, Analysis and Theory

John Delaney - Law - 1987 - 152 pages
...that a fair warning should be given to the world in language that the common world will understand, of what the law intends to do if a certain line is passed. To make the warning fair, so far as possible, the line should be clear. When a rule of conduct is laid...
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Environmental Administrative Decisions: Decisions of the United ..., Volume 1

United States. Environmental Protection Agency - Environmental law - 1972 - 1196 pages
...fair warning [has first been] given to the world in language that the common world will understand, of what the law intends to do if a certain line is passed.' McBoyle v. United States, 283 US 25, 27, 75 L Ed 816, 51 S Ct 340 (1931)." Mourning v. Family Publications...
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Legal Language

Peter M. Tiersma - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 330 pages
...that "a fair warning should be given to the world in language that the common world will understand, of what the law intends to do if a certain line is passed."-' Yet the courts' assumption that an average person can understand criminal statutes frequently seems...
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