 | Edmund Burke - History - 1853 - 876 pages
...Bacon's Abridgement, title " Statute," it is said that " a thing which is within the letter of a statute is not within the statute unless it be within the intention of the makers." And, again, " the construction to be put upon a statute is that which best answers the intention of... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1828 - 452 pages
...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. (Vac. Mr. tit. Statutes.) The latter rule applies forcibly to the cases where the Court is required... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 846 pages
...answer the intention which the makers had in view ; 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. And a statute will sometimes receive such equitable construction as is contrary to the letter. These... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1833 - 636 pages
...the intention which the makers had in view; and that a thing which is within the letter of a statute, is not within the statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers. The $54,000, which in the former report was added to the annual average amount of tickets which the institutions... | |
 | Asia - 1833 - 604 pages
...drive the cattle into the county where the manor lies ; so that a thing which is within the letter is not within the statute, unless it be within the intention of the framers. Upon the whole of this case, seeing that by the mercantile law one partner of a mercantile... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Ecclesiastical law - 1845 - 750 pages
...object would be defeated if the term should have several meanings. A thing may be in the letter, but is not within the Statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers. ll A mass of stone, weighing more than two tons, and immovable, is not within the meaning of the Rubric.... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - Law - 1846 - 708 pages
...makers of the statute. Plow. 57, Wimbish v. Tailboys. A thing which is within the letter of a statute is not within the statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers. The statute of Marlebridge, c. 4, prohibits generally the driving of a distress taken in one county into... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...construction seem contrary to the letter of the statute. A thing which is within the letter of a statute, is not within the statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers.(o) If from the view of the whole law, or from other parts in pari niateria, the evident intention... | |
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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... 
