 | United States. Department of Justice - Attorneys general's opinions - 1909 - 732 pages
...standing of these employees must terminate if the statute is not to be interpreted according to the ' familiar rule that a thing may be within the letter...its spirit nor within the intention of its makers ' (Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 143 US 457), and if the ruling of the Comptroller of... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1228 pages
...should prevail over its letter." United States v. Kirby, 74 US (7 Wall.) 482, 19 L. Ed. 278. "It is a familiar rule that a thing may be within the letter...within the intention of its makers. * * * This is not the substitution of the will of the judge for that of the legislator, for frequently words of general... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 2100 pages
...the court below, held that the case was not within the intention of the lawmakers, and said : "It is a familiar rule that a thing may be within the letter...spirit, nor within the intention of its makers. This has been often asserted, and the reports are full of cases illustrating its application. This is not... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 2132 pages
...clear that regardless of specified exceptions in the statute it does not apply to such cases. "It Is a familiar rule that a thing may be within the letter...spirit, nor within the Intention of Its makers. This has been often asserted, and the reports are full of cases Illustrating its application. This Is not... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1168 pages
...and enter into its service as rector and pastor of the church. In that case the court said: "It is a familiar rule that a thing may be within the letter...spirit, nor within the intention of its makers. This has been often asserted, and the reports are full of cases illustrating its application. This is not... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 766 pages
...181 US 283, 294; De Lima v. Bidwell, 182 US 1, 176; Dooley v. United States, 183 US 151, 154, 155. A thing may be within the letter of the statute and...its spirit nor within the intention of its makers. Holy Trinity Church v. United States, 143 US 457, 463; Jones v. Guaranty &c. Co., 101 US 622, 626;... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1164 pages
...application to the case at bar. •It is a familiär rule,' said the court, 'that a thing may be within tbe letter of the statute, and yet not within the statute,...spirit nor within the intention of its makers. This has been often asserted, and the reports are full of 'cases illustrating its application. Tliis is... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1170 pages
...however, to follow the rule generally adopted by the courts, "that a thing may be within the letter of a statute, and yet not within the statute, because not...its spirit, nor within the intention of its makers." Church of Holy Trinity v. US, 143 US 457, 12 Sup. Ct Rep. 511. In the case just cited many instances... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 1158 pages
...It seems to us that the allowance of the plaintiffs claim would directly tend to defeat both. It is a familiar rule that a thing may be within the letter of a statute, and yet not within the statute, because not within its spirit or Intention. Holy Trinity... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 1214 pages
...Jurisprudence It has been held j a thing may be within the letter of the law and yet not within the law, because not within its spirit, nor within the Intention of its makers. In the case of Stradling v. Morgan, 2 Ellz. (First Plowden) 205, it was said: "From which" cases it... | |
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It is a familiar rule, that a thing may be within the letter of the statute and yet not within the statute, because not within its spirit, nor within the intention of its makers. 
