...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...its spirit, nor within the Intention of Its makers. This has been often asserted, and the reports are full of cases Illustrating its application. This...

...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...its spirit, nor within the intention of its makers. This has been often asserted, and the reports are full of cases illustrating its application. This...

...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;...

...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,...its spirit nor within the intention of its makers. This has been often asserted, and the reports are full of 'cases illustrating its application. Tliis...

...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...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 are mentioned...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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 letter of the statute...its spirit, nor within the intention of its makers. This has been often asserted, and the reports are full of cases illustrating its application. This...

...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 letter of the statute...within the statute, because not within its spirit, nor \\itlim the intention of its makers. This bas been often asserted, and the reports are full of cases...