 | 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
...is not an immediate issue, and is important only as throwing light on the construction of the Act. But it is not necessarily true that income means the...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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1918 - 1214 páginas
...is not an immediate issue, and is important only as throwing light on the construction of the act. But it is not necessarily true that income means the...the circumstances and the time in which it is used. Lnmar v. United States, 240 US 60. 65, 60 L. ed. 526, 528, 36 Sup. Ct. Rep. 255. Whatever the meaning... | |
 | 1918 - 498 páginas
...is not an immediate issue, and is important only as throwing light on the construction of the act. But it is not necessarily true that income means the...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... | |
 | 1919 - 566 páginas
...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,...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 thru the... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - 1920 - 740 páginas
...Mr. Justice Holmes in the recent case of Towne v. Kisner, 245 US 418, is pertinent. He said (425) : "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." I do not deem it necessary to consider whether or how far my... | |
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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. 
