 | William Wheeler Thornton - 1912 - 1168 pages
...United States,5 is most pertinent : • 143 US 467, 12 Sup. Ct. 571, 36 L. Ed. 226, reversing 36 Fed. '' 'It is a familiar rule, that a thing may be within...has been often asserted, and the reports are full of eases illustrating its application. This is not the substitution of the will of the judge for that... | |
 | United States. Courts - 1912 - 1064 pages
...which to correctly interpret a statute. In Smythe v. Fiske, 23 Wall. 374, 380, this court declared that " a thing may be within the letter of the statute and not within its meaning, and within its meaning, though not within its letter. The intention of the... | |
 | United States. Comptroller of the Treasury - 1913 - 930 pages
...statute of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat., 892). But it was said by the Supreme Court in Holy Trinity Church v. United States (143 US, 457, 459): "It is a familiar...reports are full of cases illustrating its application." The act of March 4, 1913, has been recognized as applicable to cases of warrant officers, midshipmen,... | |
 | Tracy Philpot - 1913 - 326 pages
...suited for its prosperity and success." (441) §275 Legislation Must Be Interpreted Rationally. — "It is a familiar rule that a thing may be within...within the statute, because not within its spirit, nor 93 within the intention of its makers. This has often been asserted, and the reports are full of cases... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents - 1913 - 330 pages
...applied to the constructlon of the provisions of the interim copyright act of January 7, 1004, * * * the familiar rule that "a thing may be within the letter of the statute find yet not within the statute because not within its spirit nor within the intention of its makers."... | |
 | 1913 - 714 pages
...provisions of the act in relation to each other, and applying the well-known rule that a particular case may be within the letter of the statute and yet not within the intention of the lawmaker, it is my opinion that authority to remit this penalty or forfeiture has... | |
 | 1914 - 552 pages
...applied to the construction of the provisions of the Interim Copyright Act of January 7, 1904* * * the familiar rule 'that a thing may be within the letter...its spirit nor within the intention of its makers'." * It is to be observed that the Court upheld this Interim Act of 1904 as a special measure applicable... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture. Office of the General Counsel - 1914 - 878 pages
...143 US 457, 459, 12 Sup. Ct. 511, 512, 36 L. Ed. 226 : It is a. familiar rule that » thing may he within the letter of the statute, and yet not within...within its spirit, nor within the intention of its inukers. This tins been often asserted, and the reports are full of cases illustrating its application.... | |
 | 1914 - 1338 pages
...words employed, but the familiar rule must be applied, "that a thing may be within the ' letter of tbe statute, and yet not within the statute, because not...its spirit, nor within the Intention of its makers." Rothschild v. Adler-Weinberger S. 8. Co., 130 Fed. 866, 867, 65 CCA 350. All costs and damages "All... | |
 | United States - 1916 - 1266 pages
...cannot think Congress intended to denounce with penalties a transaction like that in the present case. It is a familiar rule that a thing may be within the...spirit nor within the intention of its makers. This has often been asserted, and the reports are full of cases illustrating its application. This is not the... | |
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It is a familiar rule that a thing may be within the letter of the statute and yet not within the statute, because not within its spirit, nor within the intention of its makers. 
