 | Ramananda Chatterjee - 1926 - 742 pagini
...opinion asked for by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, held that the words 'free white persons' are words of common speech to be interpreted in accordance with the understanding of the man in the street and not in accordance with the conclusions of the ethnologists. Since that decision... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1926 - 1218 pagini
...doubt, with like intent and meaning. . . . What we now hold is that the words 'free white persons' are words of common speech, to be interpreted in accordance...'Caucasian' only as that word is popularly understood. As so understood and used, whatever may be the speculations of the ethnologist, it does not include... | |
 | 1923 - 876 pagini
...— A high-cast Hindu of full Indian blood may not be naturalized since the words white persons must be interpreted in accordance with the understanding..."Caucasian " only as that word is popularly understood (United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, 43 SCR 338). — The Eighteenth Amendment gives Congress power... | |
 | G.A. Natesan - 1923 - 928 pagini
...negative. " What we now hold", observed Justice Sutherland, " is that the words ' free white persons ' are words of common speech, to be interpreted in accordance with the understanding of common man, synonymous with tbt word ' Caucasian' only us that word is popularly understood. As so... | |
 | 1923 - 756 pagini
...of the framers of the statute or of the people for whom it was framed. The words of the statute aer to be interpreted in accordance with the understanding of the common man. from whose vocabulary they were taken. See Maillard vs. Lawrence, 16 How. 251, 261. 1923 AMC posed... | |
 | 1923 - 946 pagini
...of the framers of the statute or of the people for whom it was framed. The words of the statute are to be interpreted in accordance with the understanding of the common man from whose vocabulary they were taken. See Maittard v. Lawrence, 16 How. 251, 261. They imply, as we... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1924 - 748 pagini
...of the framers of the statute or of the people for whom it was framed. The words of the statute are to be interpreted in accordance with the understanding of the common man from whose vocabulary they were taken. See Maillard v. Lawrence, 16 How. 251, 261, 14 L. Ed. 925. They... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1924 - 1212 pagini
...of the framers of the statute or of the people for whom it was framed. The words of the statute are to be interpreted in accordance with the understanding of the common man from whose vocabulary they were taken. See Maillard v. Lawrence, 16 How. 251, 261, 14 L. ed. 925, 930.... | |
 | 1924 - 1052 pagini
...kind whom they must have had affirmatively in mind ;" hence that the words "free white person" were to be interpreted "in accordance with the understanding...only as that word is popularly understood ;" and, said the court : "Whatever may be the speculations of the ethnologists, It does not include the body... | |
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What we now hold is that the words "free white persons" are words of common speech, to be interpreted in accordance with the understanding of the common man, synonymous with the word "Caucasian" only as that word is popularly understood. 
