 | New York (State). Supreme Court, John Lansing Wendell - 1847 - 704 páginas
...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... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 páginas
...such construction seem contrary to the letter of the statute. A thing which is within the letter of a statute, is not within the statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers.(o) If from the view of the whole law, or from other parts in pari niateria, the evident intention... | |
 | Samuel Owen - 1849 - 404 páginas
...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...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 páginas
...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,...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... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1852 - 496 páginas
...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...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 - 1860 - 600 páginas
...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 intention of the makers. And such construction ought to be put upon... | |
 | 1853 - 858 páginas
...In Bacon's A bridgement, title " Statute," it is said that " 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, again, " the construction to be put upon a statute is that which best answers the intention of the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1853 - 994 páginas
...In Bacon's Abridgement, title " Statute," it is said that " 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, again, " the construction to be put upon a statute is that which best answers the intention of the... | |
 | 1854 - 868 páginas
...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... | |
 | Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - 1886 - 666 páginas
...within both its letter and spirit. This rule is well settled. "A thing which is within the letter of a statute is not within the statute 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... | |
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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... 
