 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 - Сторінка 2111855Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Abraham Lansing - 1873 - 634 стор.
...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 statute, 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... | |
 | 1916 - 502 стор.
...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 makers." Further on in the opinion we read: "Doubtless the letter is first to be considered in order to determine... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1874 - 750 стор.
...construction seems contrary to the letter of the statute ; 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. J The precise meaning of the rule will be best understood by a more minute reference to the adjudged... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (7th Circuit), Josiah Hooker Bissell - 1874 - 590 стор.
...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 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 стор.
...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... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - 1876 - 620 стор.
...construction of the statute, although such construction seems contrary to the letter of the statute. "A thing which is within the letter of a statute is...unless it be within the intention of the makers." (Griswold v. National Insurance Co., 3 Cowen, 96.) Opinion of the Court — McArthur, J. If we look... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (7th Circuit), Josiah Hooker Bissell - 1876 - 590 стор.
...general statute, repealing the former statute or in any manner referring to it.1 A thing which is in the letter of a statute is not within the statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers.* " Where the intention of the legislature is not apparent to that purpose, the general words of another... | |
 | United States. Dept. of the Interior - 1876 - 1032 стор.
...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 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. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1877 - 648 стор.
...statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter ; and that a thing which is in the letter of a statute, is not within the statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers. The Act in question is not a revenue law. There is in it no intention manifested to raise any revenue... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1878 - 1018 стор.
...to it. Hume v. Gossett, 43 111. 297; The People ex rel. v. Miner, 46 111. 384. A thing which is in the letter of a statute is not within the statute unless it be within the intention of the makers. Bacon's Abridgment, title Statute, 385. "Where the intention of the legislature is not apparent to... | |
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