 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 852 pages
...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... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 798 pages
...statutes, it is said, in The People v. Utica Ins. Co., 15 Johns. 358, that " A thing within the inten' tion is as much within the statute, as if it were within the letter ; ' and a thing within the letter, if contrary to the intention, is not ' within the statute." And see Griswold v. National Ins. Co.,... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - Law - 1846 - 708 pages
...opinion of Judge Chase, 4 Dall. 30, n.} 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. Plow. 36G; Zouch v. Stowell, 10 Rep. 101. £ When the intention of the lawgiver is once ascertained,... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...construction—that is, a construction that may sometimes seem contrary to the letter; which rule has for its reason, that a thing within the intention is as much within the statute as if it were in the letter, and the principle is still recognized that this rule proceeds upon the ancient ground... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 780 pages
...interpretation that a thing which is within the spirit of a statute is within the statute, although not within the letter; and a thing within the letter is not within the statute, unless within the intention. Sisters of Charity v. City of Detroit, 9 Mich. 98, and cases there cited.... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 600 pages
...statute" (or constitution, for there is no difference in the rules of construction applicable to them) "is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter." — Thompson Ch. J. If we are correct in our interpretion of the Constitution, the clause "all cases... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 600 pages
...thereon for the tax operative. " 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 of the statute ; and a thing which is within the letter of the statute, is not within the statute unless... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1855 - 964 pages
...be so construed. [Here Mr. S. read several passages of law to show the rules of construction ; that a thing within the letter is not within the statute, if contrary to the intention of the makers ; that the word " all" admits of exceptions, &c.] The constitution of Missouri does not... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1855 - 966 pages
...be so construed. [Here Mr. S. read several passages of law to show the rules of construction; that a thing within the letter is not within the statute, if contrary to the intention of the makers ; that the word "all" admits of exceptions, &c.] The constitution of Missouri does not say... | |
 | Joseph Gales - United States - 1855 - 966 pages
...be so construed. [Here Mr. S. read several passages of law to show the rules of construction; that a thing within the letter is not within the statute, if contrary to the intention of the makers ; that the word "all" admits of exceptions, &c.] The constitution of Missouri does not say... | |
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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... 
