United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... and Rules Announced at ..., Volume 228United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner Banks & Bros., Law Publishers, 1913 |
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Page 20 - The head of each department is authorized to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government of his department, the conduct of its officers and clerks, the distribution and performance of its business, and the custody, use. and preservation of the records, papers, and property appertaining to it.
Page 467 - The trustee of the estate of a bankrupt, upon his appointment and qualification, and his successor or successors, if ho shall have one or more, upon his or their appointment and qualification, shall in turn be vested by operation of law with the title of the bankrupt, as of the date he was ad.i'udged a bankrupt, except in so far as it is to property which is exempt...
Page 314 - All transfers and assignments made of any claim upon the United States, or of any part or share thereof, or interest therein, whether absolute or conditional, and whatever may be the consideration therefor, and all powers of attorney, orders, or other authorities for receiving payment of any such claim, or of any pan or share thereof, shall be absolutely null and void...
Page 300 - ... all losses actually sustained within the year and not compensated by insurance or otherwise, including a reasonable allowance for depreciation of property, if any...
Page 530 - States, and shall make proclamation thereof, it shall be unlawful to export except under such limitations and exceptions as the President shall prescribe any arms or munitions of war from any place in the United States to such country until otherwise ordered by the President or by Congress.
Page 39 - A discharge in bankruptcy shall release a bankrupt from all of his provable debts, except such as...
Page 309 - Business' is a very comprehensive term and embraces everything about which a person can be employed. Black's Law Diet., 158, citing People v. Commissioners of Taxes, 23 NY 242, 244, 'that which occupies the time, attention and labor of men for the purpose of a livelihood or profit.
Page 130 - Second. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or if the contents of the package as originally put up shall have been removed, in whole or in part, and other contents shall have been placed in such package...
Page 468 - ... (3) powers which he might have exercised for his own benefit, but not those which he might have exercised for some other person; ... (5) property which prior to the filing of the petition he could by any means have transferred or which might have been levied upon and sold under judicial process against him...
Page 134 - It is sufficient for the present to say, generally, that when the importer has so acted upon the thing imported, that it has become incorporated and mixed up with the mass of property in the country, it has, perhaps, * lost its distinctive character as an import, and has become [ * 442 ] subject to the taxing power of the State...