 | United States. General Accounting Office - 1929 - 804 էջ
...has said, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 143 US 457, 459 : * * * 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... | |
 | United States. Court of Customs Appeals - 1925 - 692 էջ
...States (143 US 457), and the following is quoted from that very interesting case: 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 the intention of the makers. This has often been asserted, and the reports are full of cases illustrating... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1934 - 454 էջ
...determines that such apparent scope is wider than Congress intended. " * * * 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 is not the substitution of the will of the Judge for that of the legislator, for frequently... | |
 | United States. Tax Court - 1961 - 1226 էջ
...In Holy Trinity Church v. United States, 143 US 457, the Supreme Court said : It is a familiar rule, that a thing may be within the letter of the statute and yet not within the ttatute, because not within its spirit, nor within the intention of its makers. This has been often... | |
 | United States. Tax Court - 1979 - 1248 էջ
...and circumstances attending their usage. As the Supreme Court stated long ago: 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules - 1920 - 288 էջ
...act of Congress, yet held that it was not proscribed by that act. "I is a familiar rule," he said, " that a thing may be within the letter of the statute and not within the statute because not within its spirit nor within the intention of its makers," and,... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1915 - 652 էջ
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - 1972 - 580 էջ
...Mfrt. Asm. v. tfLRB 4-t* quiry into Congress' purpose in enacting the section. 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." Holy Trinity Church v. United Stales, 14.0 US 457, 459. That principle has particular application in... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare Committee - 1975 - 488 էջ
...of the statutory setting and the circumstances surrounding its enactment: "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.' Holy Trinity Church v. United States, 143 US 457, 459." National Woodwork Manufacturers Asm. v. NLRB,... | |
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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. 
