 | 1890 - 1908 páginas
...general statute. * * * A thing within the intention of the legislature in framing a statute is sometimes as much within the statute as if it were within the letter." In, re Bomino's Estate, 83 Mo. 441. Said section 127. authorizing such alteration or amendment, being... | |
 | 1890 - 968 páginas
...general statute. * * * A thing within the intention of the legislature in framing a statute is sometimes as much within the statute as if it were within the letter." In re Bomino's Estate, 83 Mo. 441. Said section 127, authorizing such alteration or amendment, being... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1926 - 276 páginas
...244.) Having found that the word "damage" was intended to be used, the court applies the rule that "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 is within the intention of the makers." The comma... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1926 - 810 páginas
...244. Having found that the word " damage " was intended to be used, the court .applies the rule that, "A thing which is within the intention of the makers...within the statute as if it were within the letter, 85 Opinion of the Court. and a thing which is within the letter of a statute, is not within the statute,... | |
 | 1880 - 546 páginas
...the latest expression of the legislative will, and not permit it to be eluded by mere construction. "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 be within the meaning of the makers." 15 Johns.... | |
 | William John Tossell - 1900 - 948 páginas
...opinion it was the intention of the legislature to include such ground in the amended statute. A thing within the intention of the makers of a statute is...within the statute as if it were within the letter. The intention of the law maker constitutes the law. A thing may be within the letter of the statute... | |
 | 1916 - 510 páginas
...proceedings. In denying the boy any share in ihe estate, the court reasoned in this manner: "A thing within the intention of the makers of a statute is as much within the statute as if it were in the letter; and a thing that is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute unless... | |
 | 1892 - 532 páginas
...decided December term. 1861, the same justice says: "A thing within the intention of the makers of the statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter." In support of this are cited Stowel v. Zouch,11 and US v. Freeman.12 Every legislature must intend... | |
 | 1928 - 1054 páginas
...afother instrumentality. A thing which is firmed, within the intention of the makers of a stat- ===== ute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter. 4 Вас. Abr. 648 (Stat. 1, § 42); Gates v. National Bank, 100 US 239 [25 L. Ed. 580]." It is contended... | |
 | United States. Department of the Interior - 1924 - 560 páginas
...It is a recognized rule in the construction of statutes that " a thing which Is within the intention of a statute Is as much within the statute as if it wert within the letter ; and a thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute... | |
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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... 
