 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...  Lawyers' Reports Annotated - Sida 3421905Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Nebraska. Supreme Court - 1871 - 534 sidor
...may seem contrary to the letter.' — Sac. ab. til. Statute ( I ) 15 John. 386, per Ch. J. THOMPSON. A thing which is within the letter of the statute,...unless it be within the intention of the makers." The same rule was applied in the case of The Mayor, drc. of New York v. Lord, 18 Wendell, 131. The... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1873 - 500 sidor
...the present case is this : " A thing which is within the intention of the makers of the statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter...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." People v. The Utica... | |
 | Abraham Lansing - 1873 - 634 sidor
...358; 14 Mass., 92; 4 Coms., 144.) For it is a maxim of interpretation, as old as Plowden, that'a thing within the letter of the statute is not within the...unless it be within the intention of the makers.' (Plowd., 18, 88; 3 Barn. & Aid., 266; 4 id., 212; 3 Cow., 89; 4 Litt. [Ky.], 377.) In this act the... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (7th Circuit), Josiah Hooker Bissell - 1874 - 590 sidor
...find the meaning of the words. 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;...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."1 Again in Dwarris'... | |
 | Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - 1874 - 430 sidor
...may consider the questions involved, keeping in mind the fundamental rules of STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION. 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." In this State it... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1874 - 750 sidor
...find the meaning of the words. 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 iB within the letter of the statute is not within the statute, unless * Tonnele v. Hall, 4 Comstock,... | |
 | 1916 - 502 sidor
...statute as it did, said: "A thing which was within the intention of the makers of the statute, is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter; and a thing within the letter of a statute is not within the statute unless it be •within the intention of the... | |
 | 1883 - 416 sidor
...of 1850. It is a maxim 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 it is evident that in this act Congress regarded a future filing of the required notice as essential... | |
 | United States. Dept. of the Interior - 1876 - 1032 sidor
...gross breach of the publie faith, the presumption is conclusive that Congress never meant to grant it. "A thing which is within the letter of the statute...unless it be within the intention of the makers." (1 Bacon Abr., 247.) The treaty of 1825 secured to the Osages the possession and use of their lands... | |
 | United States. General Land Office - 1876 - 436 sidor
...gross brooch of the publie faith, the presumption is conclusive that Congress never meant to grant it. "A thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute unless it be within the iutention of the makers." (1 Bacon Abr.,247.) The treaty of 1825 secured to the Osages the possession... | |
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