| United States. Department of Justice - 1909 - 732 páginas
...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... | |
| 1911 - 1168 páginas
...New York 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...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 - 1911 - 766 páginas
...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;... | |
| 1901 - 1164 páginas
...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... | |
| 1894 - 1170 páginas
...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... | |
| 1897 - 1158 páginas
...excess. 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... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1897 - 798 páginas
...which to correctly interpret a statute. In Smythe v. Fiske, 23 Wall. 374, 380, this court declared that " a thing may be within the letter of the statute and not within its meaning, and within its meaning, though not within its letter. The intention of the... | |
| 1918 - 1214 páginas
...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... | |
| 1905 - 1166 páginas
...intended to denounce with penalties a transaction like the one in that case. The court went on to say that it Is a familiar rule that a thing may be within the letter of a statute, and yet not be within the statute, because not within its spirit or the intention of its... | |
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