 | 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 sider
...statute" (or constitution, for there is no difference in the rules of construction applicable to them) "is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter." — Thompson Ch. J. If we are correct in our interpretion of the Constitution, the clause "all cases... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 sider
...legislature is to be resorted to, i • 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...is not within the 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... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1857 - 630 sider
...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 agt. The... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1858 - 714 sider
...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 sider
...is, sometimes, to be collected 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... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1861 - 698 sider
...be collected from a particular provision, or from the general context. Second : A thing which is in the letter of the statute, is not within the statute, unless it be the intention of the makers. With these tests Mr. D. proceeded to an elaborate and technical investigation... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1862 - 586 sider
...the letter of the statute." (The People agt. Utica Ins. Co., 15 John., 380.) "A thing which is within the intention of the makers of a statute is as much...letter : 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." (Id.) " In construing... | |
 | 1866 - 570 sider
...prevail over the literal sense of the terms. A thing which is within the object, spirit and meaning of a statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter." The dissidence of the catholic or protestant non-resident " is within the object, spirit and meaning... | |
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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... 
