 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1843 - 900 sider
...cartice. Bac. Abr. tit. Statute, Let. I. § 5. A thing which is within the intention of the makers is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter. Ibid. Whenever this intention can be discovered, it ought to be followed, although such construction... | |
 | Wisconsin. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives - 1844 - 536 sider
...legislature is to be resorted to in order to find the meaning of the words. A thing which is within ihe intention of the makers of a statute, is as much within the statute as if it were within the Idler, -and a thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute, unless it... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1845 - 852 sider
...the words. Wimbish 9 Tailbois, Plowd. 57. A thing which is within the intention of the makers of the statute, is as much within the statute, as if it were within the letter. Zouch v. Stowell, Plowd. 366. These citations are but different illustrations of the rale, that the... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 708 sider
...words." Willes, 397. And see a 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,... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - 1846 - 798 sider
...statutes, it is said, in The People v. Utica Ins. Co., 15 Johns. 358, that " A thing within the inten' tion is as much within the statute, as if it were within the letter ; ' and a thing within the letter, if contrary to the intention, is not ' within the statute." And see Griswold v.... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court, John Lansing Wendell - 1847 - 704 sider
...like the present, not within their contemplation. We may accordingly safely here apply the rule that "a thing which is within the letter of the statute, is not within the statute unless it is within the intention of the maker." Bac.Abr.tit. Statutel. When, therefore, the act of 181 3, required... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1854 - 930 sider
...construction of statutes, it has always been held, that a thing within the intention of its trainers is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter, and that a thing within the letter is not within the statute, unless it is within the intention of the... | |
 | Samuel Owen - 1849 - 404 sider
...lawgiver. It was said by Thompson, Ch. J., in the People v. The Utica Insurance Co. 15 Johns., 380, that " a thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers." I have already shown, conclusively I think, that the clause which is the... | |
 | 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 sider
...of the land, with a view to render 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... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1852 - 496 sider
...lawgiver. It was said by THOMPSON, Ch. J. in The People v. the Utica Insurance Co. 15 Johnson, 389, that " a thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers." I have already shown conclusively, I think, that the clause which is 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... 
