 | United States. Congress. House - Broj stranica: 818
...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... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1877 - Broj stranica: 648
...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... | |
 | Charles Sidney Whitman - 1878 - Broj stranica: 1224
...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 design of the whole... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1878 - Broj stranica: 1018
...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... | |
 | 1915 - Broj stranica: 1228
...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...unless it be within the intention of the makers." Jackson v. Collins, 3 Cow. (NT) S9. See, also, Ryegate v. Wardsboro. ЯО Vt. 746 ; Murray v. Hobson,... | |
 | John Hoff Stewart - 1879 - Broj stranica: 826
...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 letter. These... | |
 | 1884 - Broj stranica: 1902
...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...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 v. Carley,... | |
 | Irving Browne - 1880 - Broj stranica: 638
...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 the meaning of the makers." 15 Johns. 338, 380. For these reasons we are of opinion that the statutes of... | |
 | 1881 - Broj stranica: 956
...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... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.), Rowland M. Stover - 1880 - Broj stranica: 682
...but was designed to limit and cut. off their allowances. "A thing which is within the letter of tlie statute is not within the statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers " (Innes agt. Purcell, supra ; Holmes agt Cartey, 31 tf. Y., 289, 290). Rumsey & Miller, opposed. THE... | |
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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... 
