 | United States. Department of Justice - 1909 - 732 pages
...generally. This is a case where, as is said in Holy Trinity Church v. United States (143 US 459): " A thing may be within the letter of the statute and...reports are full of cases illustrating its application. This is not the substitution of the will of the judge for that of the legislator, for frequently words... | |
 | 1910 - 2132 pages
...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 of the statute...reports are full of cases Illustrating its application. This Is not the substitution of the will of the Judge for that of the legislator, for frequently words... | |
 | 1911 - 1168 pages
...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 of the statute...reports are full of cases illustrating its application. This is not the substitution of the will of the judge for that of the legislator, for frequently words... | |
 | 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,...reports are full of 'cases illustrating its application. Tliis is not the substitution of tbe will of the judge for that of the legislator; for frequently words... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 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;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1897 - 1158 pages
...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 Church v. US. 143 US 457, 12 Sup. Ct. 511. But in this case the claim of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1897 - 798 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
