 | 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 agt. The... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1862 - 586 páginas
...construction seems contrary to the letter of the statute." (The People agt. Utica Ins. Co., 15 John., 380.) "A thing which is within the intention of the makers...the 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... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1866 - 716 páginas
...against us. Authorities need not be quoted to sustain the familiar axiom, "A thing within the intention, is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter ; and a thing within the letter only, if contrary to the intention, is not within the statute." III. The case of... | |
 | 1866 - 570 páginas
...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... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - 1957 - 1028 páginas
...268 US 85, 90, we applied the rule laid down in People v. Utica Ing. Co., 15 Johns. 358, 381, that "a thing which is within the intention of the makers...the letter, and a thing which is within the letter of the statute, is not within the statute, unless it is within the intention of the makers." Referring... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - 1919 - 740 páginas
...use by the Postmaster General in determining equal and just compensation for that service. A thing within the intention of the makers of a statute is...within the statute as if it were within the letter. United States v. Babbit, 1 Black, 55. As the intention of the act of 1873 was to adopt a method of... | |
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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... 
