 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."—Per Mr. Justice Holmes in Towne v. Eisner, 245 US 425.  Law Notes - Page 1561920Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1919 - 748 pages
...decision. The extract in question follows :— "A word is not a crystal—transparent and unchanged ; at is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly...according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Could Mr. Justice Holmes have more precisely or more vividly expressed the idea he wished to... | |
 | Thomas Reed Powell - 1919 - 472 pages
...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,...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 Amendment... | |
 | Thomas Reed Powell - 1919 - 472 pages
...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,...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 Amendment... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1918 - 1222 pages
...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;...according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. Lámar v. United States, 240 US 60, 65, 60 L. ed. 526, 528, 36 Sup. Ct. Rep. 255. Whatever the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1918 - 1592 pages
...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;...according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. Lámar v. United States, 240 US 60, 65. 60 L. ed. 526, 528, 36 Sup. Ct. Rep. 255. Whatever the... | |
 | 1918 - 1218 pages
...taxable control of a state other than that of the owner's domicile. STOCK DIVIDENDS AS INCOME. — "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged,...the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Mr. Justice Holmes thus commented... | |
 | 1919 - 482 pages
...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;...according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Justice Stephen in Regina v. Tolson, 9 well points out the many different and confusing meanings... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - 1920 - 740 pages
...-J45 US 418, is pertinent. He said (425): "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it if the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly...according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. La-mar v. United States, 240 TS 00,65." I do not deem it necessary to consider whether or how... | |
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