 | United States. Department of Justice - 1909 - 732 pagina’s
...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...the statute and yet not within the statute, because not within its spirit nor within the intention of its makers ' (Church of the Holy Trinity v. United... | |
 | 1911 - 1168 pagina’s
...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...the statute and yet not within the statute, because not within its spirit, nor within the intention of its makers. This has been often asserted, and the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1911 - 766 pagina’s
...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 yet not within the statute because not within its spirit nor within the intention of its makers. Holy Trinity Church v. United States,... | |
 | 1897 - 1158 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1905 - 1168 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Tennessee. Supreme Court - 1893 - 836 pagina’s
...the idea that every other kind of labor or service was intended to be reached by the first section. It is a familiar rule that a thing may be within the...the statute, and yet not within the statute, because not within its spirit, nor within the intention of its makers. This is not the substitution of the... | |
 | William Packer Prentice - 1894 - 578 pagina’s
...cannot think Congress intended to denounce with penalties a transaction like that in the present case. It is a familiar rule that a thing may be within the...the statute and yet not within the statute, because not within its spirit, nor within the intention of its makers. Tin's has been often asserted, and the... | |
 | 1897 - 1110 pagina’s
...Contract Labor Law" (Church of Holy Trinity v. US, 143 US 457, 12 Sup. Ct. 511), in which the court says, "It is a familiar rule that a thing may be within...the statute, and yet not within the statute, because not within its spirit nor within the intention of its makers." It should be remembered that the oft-quoted... | |
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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. 
