Morey v. Medbury

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “A penal statute is one which imposes a penalty or forfeiture for transgressing its provisions, or for doing a thing prohibited[.]”
• “A penal statute is one which imposes a penalty or forfeiture for transgressing its provisions, or for doing a thing prohibited[.]”
• “A penal statute is one which imposes a penalty or forfeiture for transgressing its provisions, or for doing a thing prohibited[.]”
• “[a] penal statute is one which imposes a penalty or forfeiture for transgressing its provisions, or for doing a thing prohibited, and it is none the less a penal statute [even though] it is also remedial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).