A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. Law Series - Página 511919Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - 1952 - 932 páginas
...the term requisition. As was said by Justice Holmes in the case of Towne v. Eisner, 245 US 418, 425. A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and it may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is... | |
| 1918 - 502 páginas
...Act. But it is not necessarily true that income means the same thing in the Constitution and the Act. A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged,...the circumstances and the time in which it is used. Lamar v. United States, 240 US 60, 65. Whatever the meaning of the Constitution, the Government had... | |
| Thomas Reed Powell - 1919 - 472 páginas
...remarked: "But it is not necessarily true that income means the same thing in the Constitution and the Act. A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged,...the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Later statutes of Congress will make it necessary to determine whether the Sixteenth Amendment authorizes... | |
| Robert Hiester Montgomery - 1920 - 1304 páginas
...act. But it is not necessarily true that income means the same thing in the constitution and the act. A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged;...the circumstances and the time in which it is used. Lamar v. United States, 240 US 60, 65. Whatever the meaning of the constitution, the government had... | |
| 1918 - 498 páginas
...act. But it is not necessarily true that income means the same thing in the constitution and the act. A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged;...the circumstances and the time in which it is used. Lamar vs. United States, 240 US 60, 65. Whatever the meaning of the constitution, the government had... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1918 - 636 páginas
...same thing In the Constitution and the Act. A word IB not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it IB the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly...according to the circumstances and the time in which It la need. Lámar v. United States, 240 US 60, 65, 36 Sup. Ct. 255, 60 L. Ed. 526. Whatever the meaning... | |
| 1919 - 482 páginas
...of Justice Holmes' epigram contained in the recent case of Towne v. Eisner,8 which was as follows: "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged...the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Justice Stephen in Regina v. Tolson," well points out the many different and confusing meanings mens... | |
| Bliss Perry - 1920 - 416 páginas
...exposed to such further changes, of form and of meaning, as usage may prescribe. ..." Century Dictionary. "A word is not a crystal — transparent and unchanged;...the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Justice OUVER WENDELL HOLMES, Towne vs. Eisner. "I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely... | |
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