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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... "
Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Florida - Page 558
by Florida. Supreme Court - 1869
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Annual Register, Volume 94

Edmund Burke - History - 1853 - 876 pages
...In 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...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volumes 1-2

Vermont. Supreme Court, Asa Aikens - Law reports, digests, etc - 1827 - 440 pages
...letter shall be considered within the meaning; for a case which is within the intention, is as much within the statute, as if it were within the letter ; and a case which is within the letter, is not within the statute, unless it be within the intention. (Plowd....
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of North ..., Volume 4

North Carolina. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1828 - 452 pages
...letter of the 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 is within the letter of a statute, is not within the statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers. (Vac. Mr. tit....
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Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Chancery of the State of ..., Volume 30

New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 846 pages
...best 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...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 1

Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart - Law reports, digests, etc - 1830 - 654 pages
...to be resorted to in order to discover their meaning: that a thing within the intention, is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter ; and a thing within the letter is not within the statute, if contrary to the intention of it; that such a construction...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's ..., Volume 3

Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1833 - 1072 pages
...within it, must not only be within the literal sense of the enacting words, but within the intent. A thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute, unless it be within the intent of the maker; Bacon Mr. tit Statutel. 5.; Bridger v. Eidiardsan (a) ; and the construction ought...
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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, Volume 56, Issues 1-2

New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1833 - 636 pages
...answer 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...
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The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India ...

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...
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Report of the Copy-right Case of Wheaton V. Peters: Decided in the Supreme ...

Henry Wheaton - Copyright - 1834 - 186 pages
...as may be agreeable to the rules of the common law." (76.) " A thing which is within the letter of a statute, is not within the statute, unless it be within the intention of the makers." (76. pi. 5.) " A statute ought sometimes to have such equitable construction, as is contrary to the...
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the ... Legislative Assembly of ...

Wisconsin. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives - Legislative journals - 1843 - 1080 pages
...intention tf the makers of a statute, is as much within the statute as if it were within the let ter ; 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 he eluded." These views are...
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