 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...  The New-York Legal Observer - Page 289edited by - 1849Full view - About this book
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 1036 pages
...manner therein provided: Coluxtt v. Bank, 119 NY 409. STATUTES — CONSTRUCTION. — A thing which ia within the letter of the statute is not within the statute, unless it be within the intention of tbe makers of that statute: Bigg» v. Palmer, 115 NY 606; 12 Am. St. Rep. 819, and note as to the effect... | |
 | Probate law and practice - 1892 - 704 pages
...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...statute unless it be within the intention of the makers. The writers of law do not always express their intention perfectly, but either exceed it or fall short... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 830 pages
...of Courts to seek for such a construction as will reconcile both. [Warder v. Arelle, 2 Wash. 282.] " A thing which is within the letter of the statute,...unless it be within the intention of the makers." [6th Bac. Ab. 385.] The intention of the Legislature in the passage of this act, is sufficiently plain.... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners of the Land Office - Public lands - 1892 - 40 pages
...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...statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers, and such construction ought to be put upon it as does not suffer it to be eluded." (Bac. Abr. Stat.,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1178 pages
...intention of the makers of a statute is as much within the statute as if it weve within the letter; and a thing which is within the letter of the statute...statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers; and such construction ought to be put upon it as does not suffer it to be eluded." It is conceded that... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1030 pages
...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 unless it U within the intention of the makers: JRiggt v. Palmer, 115 NY 606; 12 Am. St. Rep. 819, and extended... | |
 | Austin Wakeman Scott - Trusts and trustees - 1919 - 858 pages
...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...statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers. The writers of laws do not always express their intention perfectly, but either exceed it or fall short... | |
 | New York (State). Department of Labor - Labor - 1919 - 1406 pages
...the intent of the Legislature is as much within the statute as though it were whin 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 (Riggs *. Palmer, 115 NY 506, 509), and it must be entirely obvious... | |
 | Puerto Rico. Office of the Attorney General - 1919 - 560 pages
...much within the statute as if it were within 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. ' ' Guerra v. The. Treasurer of Porto Rico, 8 PRR 280, 302. The same principle is announced in the... | |
 | New York (State). Public Service Commission. First District - Public utilities - 1919 - 748 pages
...& Brooklyn Bridge. 72 NV 527, 539; Heerwagen v. Crosstoii'ii St. Ry. Co., 1/0 N" Y. 99.) "A thini? which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute unless it is within the intention of the makers." (Riafis v. Palmer. 115 NY 506. 509.) The authority of the commission... | |
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