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2025 Delaware Code
Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Chapter 2. GENERAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING OFFENSES
§ 203. Principles of construction.
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11 DE Code § 203 (2025)
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§ 203. Principles of construction.
The general rule that a penal statute is to be strictly construed does not apply to this Criminal Code, but the provisions herein must be construed according to the fair import of their terms to promote justice and effect the purposes of the law, as stated in § 201 of this title.
11 Del. C. 1953, § 203; 58 Del. Laws, c. 497, § 1;
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