 It is a familiar canon of construction that a thing which is within the intention of the makers of a statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter; and a thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute...  The American Law Register - Sida 2111855Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Edmund Burke - 1853 - 876 sidor
...the misehief and advance the remedy. " In Bacon's Abridgement, title " Statute," it is said that " a thing which is within the letter of a statute is...unless it be within the intention of the makers." And, again, " the construction to be put upon a statute is that which best answers the intention of... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1828 - 452 sidor
...intention of the maker of a statute, is as much within the statute, as if it were within the letter; and a thing which is within the letter of a statute, is...statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers. (Vac. Mr. tit. Statutes.) The latter rule applies forcibly to the cases where the Court is required... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Richard Peters - 1829 - 758 sidor
...way when opposed to the intention of the legislature; for it is a settled rule of law, " that what is within the letter of a statute is not within the statute, if it be not within the intention of the legislature." The construction claimed by the defendants appears... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1879 - 846 sidor
...construction must be put on a statute as may best answer the intention which the makers had in view ; and a thing which is within the letter of a statute, is...statute unless it be within the intention of the makers. And a statute will sometimes receive such equitable construction as is contrary to the letter. These... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - 1833 - 636 sidor
...ought to be put upon a statute as may best answer the intention which the makers had in view; and that a thing which is within the letter of a statute, is...statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers. The $54,000, which in the former report was added to the annual average amount of tickets which the... | |
 | 1833 - 604 sidor
...drive the cattle into the county where the manor lies ; so that a thing which is within the letter is not within the statute, unless it be within the intention of the framers. Upon the whole of this case, seeing that by the mercantile law one partner of a mercantile... | |
 | Henry Wheaton - 1834 - 186 sidor
...statutes are to receive such a construction as may be agreeable to the rules of the common law." (76.) " A thing which is within the letter of a statute, is...unless it be within the intention of the makers." (76. pi. 5.) " A statute ought sometimes to have such equitable construction, as is contrary to the... | |
 | Wisconsin. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives - 1843 - 1080 sidor
...within the statute as if it were within the let ter ; and a thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers. And such construction ought to be put upon it, as does not suffer it to he eluded." These views are... | |
 | Wisconsin. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives - 1844 - 536 sidor
...much within the statute as if it were within the Idler, -and a thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers. And such construction ought to be put upon it, as does not suffer it to be eluded." These views are... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - 1845 - 750 sidor
...object would be defeated if the term should have several meanings. A thing may be in the letter, but is not within the Statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers. ll A mass of stone, weighing more than two tons, and immovable, is not within the meaning of the Rubric.... | |
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