 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1842 - 672 pages
...intention of the legislators, is to be resorted to in order to find the meaning of the words." • • 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." Bac. Mr. tille Stat. page 648. VOL. III.—... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1828 - 452 pages
...be discovered, ought to be followed with reason and discretion in the construction of the statute, although such construction seem contrary to the letter...statute. A thing which is within the intention of the maker of a statute, is as much within the statute, as if it were within the letter; and a thing which... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 748 pages
...whether the affairs of a corporation are wound up by the court or the officers of the corporation. 5. A thing which is within the intention of the makers of a statute, ia as much within the statute aa if it were within its letter. On application for injunction. Heard... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - Law - 1846 - 708 pages
...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 of a statute, is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter. Plow. 36G; Zouch v. Stowell, 10 Rep. 101.... | |
 | 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
...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 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... | |
 | 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
...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 - Constitutional history - 1857 - 770 pages
...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 of a statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter ; and a thing which is within the letter... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1862 - 586 pages
...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 of a statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter : and a thing which is within the letter... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - Law reports, digests, etc - 1957 - 1028 pages
...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 of a statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter, and a thing which is within the letter... | |
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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... 
