 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
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1877 - 648 páginas
...statutes have established the propositions, 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 that a thing which is in the letter of a statute, is not within the statute, unless it be within the... | |
 | Charles Patrick Daly - 1878 - 618 páginas
...statute, when ascertained, shoukL be followed. 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 (Holmes v. Carley, 31 NY 289 ; affi'g 32 Barb. 444 ; Chase v. NY Centl. RR Co. 26 NY iz - : see als?... | |
 | Charles Sidney Whitman - 1878 - 1224 páginas
...the patent itself. First, it has been repeatedly decided, that " a thing which is in the ilctter of a statute is not within the statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers." Uwarris on Statutes, 692 ; Bac. Abr. Statute, T; 2Instit, 107, 386. Here, the great... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1878 - 1018 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1915 - 1228 páginas
...include the particular act." Trinity v. United States, 143 U. S. 457, 12 Sup. Ct. 511, 36 L. Ed. 226. "A thing which is within the letter of the statute...within the statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers." Jackson v. Collins, 3 Cow. (NT) S9. See, also, Ryegate v. Wardsboro. ЯО Vt. 746 ;... | |
 | John Hoff Stewart - 1879 - 826 páginas
...best answer the intention which the makers had in view ; and a thing which is within the letter of a statute, is not within the statute unless it be within the intention of the makers. And a statute will sometimes receive such equitable construction as is contrary to the... | |
 | 1884 - 1902 páginas
...subordinate. State v. Bancroft, 22 Kan. 206. "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 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." Holmes... | |
 | Irving Browne - 1880 - 638 páginas
...permit it to be eluded by mere construction. " A tiling which is within the intention of the makers of a statute is as much within the statute as if it were...is not within the statute unless it be within the meaning of the makers." 15 Johns. 338, 380. For these reasons we are of opinion that the statutes of... | |
 | 1902 - 2074 páginas
...that such was the intention of congress in the passage of the act. It Is a rule of construction that a thing which Is -within the letter of the statute...within the statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers of the law; and the court, in order to ascertain the intention of the law-making body,... | |
 | 1881 - 956 páginas
...designed to be embraced in it. And in Gates v. Nat. Bank, 100 US 239, 24-i, Mr. Justice Harlan says that "a thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute unless it be within the meaning of the makers." In Whitney v. Emmett, Bald. 303, 316, it is said: " Laws are construed strictly... | |
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