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... meaning of a statute made in the course of its enactment . If Parliament desires to put a gloss on the meaning of ordinary language , it must incorporate it in the text of legislation . See Plucknett , A Concise History of the Common ...
... meaning of a statute made in the course of its enactment . If Parliament desires to put a gloss on the meaning of ordinary language , it must incorporate it in the text of legislation . See Plucknett , A Concise History of the Common ...
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... meaning for that phrase in § 294 ( d ) ( 2 ) simpliciter . But if Congress chooses by appropriate means for expressing its [ 95 ] purpose to use language with an unlikely and even odd meaning , it is not for this Court to frustrate its ...
... meaning for that phrase in § 294 ( d ) ( 2 ) simpliciter . But if Congress chooses by appropriate means for expressing its [ 95 ] purpose to use language with an unlikely and even odd meaning , it is not for this Court to frustrate its ...
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... any time be permitted to waive " the restrictions on assessment and collection of a deficiency , but could do so only after the issuance of a notice of deficiency . the margin , ' does not support the meaning sought 10 TAX CASES.
... any time be permitted to waive " the restrictions on assessment and collection of a deficiency , but could do so only after the issuance of a notice of deficiency . the margin , ' does not support the meaning sought 10 TAX CASES.
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... meaning sought to be derived from it . While certain isolated passages can be so read , taken [ 312 ] as a whole what the Subcommittee said appears to us to espouse the posi- tion that the Commissioner's long - standing interpretation ...
... meaning sought to be derived from it . While certain isolated passages can be so read , taken [ 312 ] as a whole what the Subcommittee said appears to us to espouse the posi- tion that the Commissioner's long - standing interpretation ...
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... meaning , imputes to Congress a surer grammatical touch than does the alternative interpretation , under which the " any sum " phrase completely assimilates the other two . Surely a much clearer statute could have been written to ...
... meaning , imputes to Congress a surer grammatical touch than does the alternative interpretation , under which the " any sum " phrase completely assimilates the other two . Surely a much clearer statute could have been written to ...
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Page 175 - If, during the taxable year, the recognized gains upon sales or exchanges of property nsed in the trade or business, plus the recognized gains from the compulsory or involuntary conversion (as a result of destruction in whole or in part, theft or seizure, or an exercise of the power of requisition or condemnation or the threat or Imminence thereof) of property used in the trade or business...
Page 65 - The officer may break open any outer or inner door or window of a house, or any part of a house, or anything therein, to execute the warrant, if, after notice of his authority and purpose, he is refused admittance.
Page 47 - The district courts shall have original jurisdiction, concurrent with the Court of Claims, of : (1) Any civil action against the United States for the recovery of any internal-revenue tax alleged to have been erroneously or illegally assessed or collected, or any penalty claimed to have been collected without authority or any sum alleged to have been excessive or in any manner wrongfully collected under the internal-revenue laws...
Page 154 - The proper allowance for such depreciation of any property used in the trade or business is that amount which should be set aside for the taxable year in accordance with a reasonably consistent plan (not necessarily at a uniform rate), whereby the aggregate of the amounts so set aside, plus the salvage value, will, at the end of the useful life of the property in the business, equal the cost or other basis of the property determined in accordance with section 113.
Page 69 - And all property taken or detained by any officer or other person under authority of any revenue law of the United States, shall be irrepleviable, and shall be deemed to be in the custody of the law, and subject only to the orders and decrees of the courts of "the United States having jurisdiction thereof.
Page 59 - A person aggrieved by an unlawful search and seizure may move the district court for the district in which the property was seized for the return of the property and to suppress for use as evidence...
Page 16 - No party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objection.
Page 68 - RULE 2. ONE FORM OF ACTION There shall be one form of action to be known as "civil action".