| United States. Customs Court - 1970 - 1246 pagini
...United States v. Harris*, supra, p. 618. The Constitution requires no more than that the language convey "sufficiently definite warning as to the proscribed...when measured by common understanding and practices." United States v. PetrUlo, supra, p. 8. Whether or not the "void for vagueness" doctrine is applicable... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1948 - 968 pagini
...punished; but the Constitution does not require impossible standOpinion of the Court. 332 US ards. The language here challenged conveys sufficiently...reason, violates the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment. This contention, raised by the motion to dismiss, and sustained by the District Court as... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1967 - 446 pagini
...[T]he Constitution does not require impossible standards' ; all that is required is that the language 'conveys sufficiently definite warning as to the proscribed...when measured by common understanding and practices. . . .' United States v. Petrillo, 332 US 1, 7-8 [1947]." The words used must "give adequate warning... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1967 - 1034 pagini
...[T]he Constitution does not require impossible standards' ; all that is required is that the language 'conveys sufficiently definite warning as to the proscribed...when measured by common understanding and practices. . . .' ( •'wiled xiutc* v. Petrillo, 332 US 1, 7-8 [1947]." The words used must "give adequate warning... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 4 - 1967 - 366 pagini
...[Tlhe Constitution does not require impossible standards' ; all that is required is that the language 'conveys sufficiently definite warning as to the proscribed...when measured by common understanding and practices. . . .' United State* v. Petrillo, 332 US 1, 7-8 [1947l." The words used must "give adequate warning... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1968 - 1180 pagini
..." 'Constitution does not require impossible standards' ; all that is required is that the language 'conveys sufficiently definite warning as to the proscribed conduct when measured by common 695. See also id., at 704. Mr. Justice Frankfurter went on to say that '"[s]exual immorality' is not... | |
| United States. National Commission on Reform of Federal Criminal Laws - 1970 - 798 pagini
...(Boyce Motor Lines, Inc. v. United States, 342 US 337, 340 ( 1952) ) ; The language [of the statute] conveys sufficiently definite warning as to the proscribed...common understanding and practices. The Constitution reand to interpret the new legislation to that model. Thus, the relatively narrow limits of seventeenth-... | |
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