 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 American Law Register - Side 2111855Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 708 sider
...husband, this case is within the intention of the makers of the statute. Plow. 57, Wimbish v. Tailboys. A thing which is within the letter of a statute is...statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers. The statute of Marlebridge, c. 4, prohibits generally the driving of a distress taken in one county... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 sider
...construction of the statute, although such construction seem contrary to the letter of the statute. A thing which is within the letter of a statute, is...statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers.(a) If from the view of the whole law, or from other parts in pari mat&ia, the evident intention... | |
 | Samuel Owen - 1849 - 404 sider
...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 occasion of this examination,... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1852 - 496 sider
...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 occasion of this examination,... | |
 | 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
...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 it be within the intention of the makers." (Thompson Ch. J. in The People v. The Utica Insurance Co. 15 Johns. 380.) AMEEES V. Rnoxus. By the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1853 - 994 sider
...the mischief and advance the remedy. " In Bacon's Abridgement, title " Statute," it is said that " a thing which is within the letter of a statute is...unless it be within the intention of the makers." And, again, " the construction to be put upon a statute is that which best answers the intention of... | |
 | 1853 - 858 sider
...the mischief and advance the remedy. " In Bacon's A bridgement, title " Statute," it is said that " a thing which is within the letter of a statute is...unless it be within the intention of the makers." And, again, " the construction to be put upon a statute is that which best answers the intention of... | |
 | Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - 1886 - 666 sider
...not to be extended beyond cases clearly within both its letter and spirit. This rule is well settled. "A thing which is within the letter of a statute is...unless it be within the intention of the makers." 4 Bac. Abr., Statutes, sec. 45. "Penal statutes are always to be strictly construed for the benefit... | |
 | 1854 - 868 sider
...from assignees of the patent itself. First, it has been repeatedly decided, 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." Dwarris on Statutes, 692 ; Bac. Abr. Statute, T ; 2 Instil. 107, 386. * Here the great design of the... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 774 sider
...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 intention pf the makers ; and such construction ought to be put upon it as does not suffer it to be eluded."*... | |
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