 | United States. Department of Justice - 1909 - 732 sider
...not 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...within the statute, because not within its spirit, nor within the intention of its makers. * * * " The court further said (pp. 464-465) : " It appears,... | |
 | 1911 - 1168 sider
...New York and enter into its service as rector and pastor of the church. In that case the court said: "It is a familiar rule that a thing may be within...within the statute, because not within its spirit, nor within the intention of its makers. This has been often asserted, and the reports are full of cases... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1911 - 766 sider
...181 US 283, 294; De Lima v. Bidwell, 182 US 1, 176; Dooley v. United States, 183 US 151, 154, 155. A thing may be within the letter of the statute and...not within the statute because not within its spirit nor within the intention of its makers. Holy Trinity Church v. United States, 143 US 457, 463; Jones... | |
 | 1901 - 1164 sider
...application to the case at bar. •It is a familiär rule,' said the court, 'that a thing may be within tbe letter of the statute, and yet not within the statute, because not within its spirit nor within the intention of its makers. This has been often asserted, and the reports are full of 'cases... | |
 | 1897 - 1158 sider
...excess. It seems to us that the allowance of the plaintiffs claim would directly tend to defeat both. It is a familiar rule that a thing may be within the letter of a statute, and yet not within the statute, because not within its spirit or Intention. Holy Trinity... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1897 - 798 sider
...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... | |
 | 1894 - 1170 sider
...however, to follow the rule generally adopted by the courts, "that a thing may be within the letter of a statute, and yet not within the statute, because not within its spirit, nor within the intention of its makers." Church of Holy Trinity v. US, 143 US 457, 12 Sup. Ct Rep.... | |
 | 1905 - 1166 sider
...intended to denounce with penalties a transaction like the one in that case. The court went on to say that it Is a familiar rule that a thing may be within the letter of a statute, and yet not be within the statute, because not within its spirit or the intention of its... | |
 | Tennessee. Supreme Court - 1893 - 836 sider
...the idea that every other kind of labor or service was intended to be reached by the first section. It is a familiar rule that a thing may be within the...within the statute, because not within its spirit, nor within the intention of its makers. This is not the substitution of the will of the Judge for that... | |
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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. 
