 | United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - 1952 - 932 pagini
...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 pagini
...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,...content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. Lamar v. United States, 240 US 60, 65. Whatever the meaning of the Constitution,... | |
 | Thomas Reed Powell - 1919 - 472 pagini
...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,...content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Later statutes of Congress will make it necessary to determine whether the Sixteenth... | |
 | Robert Hiester Montgomery - 1920 - 1304 pagini
...act. But it is not necessarily true that income means the same thing in the constitution and the act. which it is used. Lamar v. United States, 240 US 60, 65. Whatever the meaning of the constitution,... | |
 | 1918 - 498 pagini
...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;...content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. Lamar vs. United States, 240 US 60, 65. Whatever the meaning of the constitution,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1918 - 636 pagini
...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...content 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... | |
 | 1919 - 482 pagini
...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...content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Justice Stephen in Regina v. Tolson," well points out the many different and confusing... | |
 | 1919 - 566 pagini
...will of the legislature has to be expressed by words, spoken or written." Mr. Justice Holmes28 says: "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged,...content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Thus, statutes must be interpreted by courts to give them meaning and they are interpreted... | |
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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. 
