 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 Atlantic Reporter - Page 1721905Full view - About this book
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 708 pages
...similar opinion of Judge Chase, 4 Dall. 30, n.} 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. Plow. 36G; Zouch v. Stowell, 10 Rep. 101. £ When the intention of the lawgiver is once ascertained,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1851 - 680 pages
...and 222 ; 19 Viner, Statutes, E. 6, pi. 145, 146, p. 527. *' A thing which is within the intcn ion of the makers of the statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter." 4 Bac, Abr., Statute, I. pi. 42, p. 648; 19 Viner, Statutes, E. 6, pi. 80, 81, p. 519; Mountjoy's'case,'5... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1862 - 600 pages
...the lien thereon for the tax operative. " 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 of the statute ; and a thing which is within the letter of the statute, is not within the statute unless... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1860 - 600 pages
...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 is within the letter of the statute, is not within the _ statute unless it be within... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 774 pages
...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 is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute, unless it be within... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1857 - 630 pages
...contrary to the letter of the statute. (Crocker agt. Crane, supra.) Because a thing within the intention is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter, and a thing within the letter is not within the statute if contrary to the intention of it. (The People... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1858 - 714 pages
...must be carried into effect. Again, it is a rule of construction that a thing within the intention of the statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter of the statute. ( The People v. The Utica Ins. Co. 15 John. 358. Jackson v. Collins, 3 Cowen, 89.)... | |
 | William Johnson, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1859 - 512 pages
...from the cause or necessity of making a statute ; and a thing within the intention of the makers of a statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter. (6 Bac. Abr. 384. Gwillim's ed. Stat. I. s. 5. and the cases there cited.) To ascertain the intention... | |
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