 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 Pacific Reporter - Página 1311893Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1874 - 750 páginas
...in order to 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 páginas
...construe the 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 páginas
...Section 6, act 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... | |
 | Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - 1874 - 430 páginas
...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... | |
 | United States. Dept. of the Interior - 1876 - 1032 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | United States. General Land Office - 1876 - 436 páginas
...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... | |
 | Henry Billings Brown - 1876 - 620 páginas
...law in any other than that case." Again, " 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." Again, at p. 391, " Every statute ought to be construed for the preventing of delay as much as possible."... | |
 | 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 páginas
...construction seems contrary to the letter of the statute. "A thing which is within the letter of a statute is not within the statute unless it be within the intention of the makers." (Griswold v. National Insurance Co., 3 Cowen, 96.) Opinion of the Court — McArthur,... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (7th Circuit), Josiah Hooker Bissell - 1876 - 590 páginas
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 818 páginas
...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 is not within the statute unless it be withiu the intention of the makers." (1 Bacon Abr., 247.) Thetreaty of 1825 secured to the Osages the... | |
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