 | 1890 - 542 lapas
...cannot be doubted that they would have provided for it. It is a familiar canon of construction that a thing which is within the intention of the makers...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... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1881 - 802 lapas
...construction of a new road Commissioners, &c. v. Young. as well as the repair of an old one. A thing within the intention of the makers of a statute is as much within the statute, as if within the letter. 9 Bacon Ab. 247. Such being the meaning of the statute, we are of the opinion that... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1884 - 806 lapas
...all that is necessary. The rule of statutory construction that a thing which is within the intention 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... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1873 - 500 lapas
...applicable to the present case is this : " 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 ; and a thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute unless it be within... | |
 | 1883 - 416 lapas
...expressed in those acts, and restored the provisions of Section 6, act of 1850. It is a maxim that "a thing which is within the intention of the makers...within the statute as if it were within the letter ;" and it is evident that in this act Congress regarded a future filing of the required notice as essential... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (7th Circuit), Josiah Hooker Bissell - 1874 - 590 lapas
...doutful, the intention of the legislature is to be resorted to, in order to find the meaning of the words. A thing which is within the intention of the makers...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... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1874 - 750 lapas
...doubtful, the intention of the Legislature is to be resorted to, in order to find the meaning of the words. A thing which is within the intention of the makers...within the statute as if it were within the letter; and a thing which iB within the letter of the statute is not within the statute, unless * Tonnele v.... | |
 | 1916 - 502 lapas
...the boy any share in the estate, the court reasoned in this manner : "A thing within the intentfon 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... | |
 | Henry Billings Brown - 1876 - 620 lapas
...particular case, this shall not be extended to alter the common law in any other than that case." Again, " A thing which is within the intention of the makers...within the statute as if it were within the letter." Again, at p. 391, " Every statute ought to be construed for the preventing of delay as much as possible."... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1877 - 648 lapas
...statute. Well settled principles in the construction of statutes have established the propositions, that a thing which is within the intention of the makers...within the statute as if it were within the letter ; and that a thing which is in the letter of a statute, is not within the statute, unless it be within... | |
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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... 
