Adams v. Woods

Citations

6 U.S. 336
2 L. Ed. 297
2 Cranch 336
1805 U.S. LEXIS 279

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noting that failure to limit “actions of debt for penalties” would allow those cases to “be brought at any distance of time,” which “would be utterly repugnant to the genius of our laws”
noting 2 Case: 24-60215 Document: 88-1 Page: 3 Date Filed: 04/18/2025 No. 24-60215 that “[a]lmost every” penal statute could have been enforced this way
“Almost every fine or forfeiture under a penal statute, may be recovered by an action of debt as well as by information.”
“[a]lmost every fine or forfeiture under a penal statute, may be recovered by an action of debt [qui tam] as well as by information [by the public prosecutor]”
“Almost every fine or forfeiture under a penal statute, may be recovered by an action of debt as well as by information.”
“Almost every fine or forfeiture under a penal statute, may be recovered by an action of debt as well as by information.”

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