 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1843 - 900 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...themselves in plain and clear 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...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,... | |
 | 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
...a perfect description 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...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... | |
 | 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
...letter without it), and the objects the makers of it had in view, as intended to be given by them. " A thing which is within the intention of the makers of a statute" (or constitution, for there is no difference in the rules of construction applicable to them) "is as... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 páginas
...intention of the 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...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... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1857 - 630 páginas
...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... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1858 - 714 páginas
...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 páginas
...intention 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...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... | |
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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... 
