| United States. Customs Court - Customs administration - 1963 - 644 pages
...Frequently, however, even when the plain meaning did not produce surd results but merely an unreasonable one "plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation...the words may appear on "superficial examination." The interpretation of the meaning of statutes, as applied to justiciable controversies, is exclusively... | |
| United States. Customs Court - Customs administration - 1978 - 276 pages
...erroneous, but also that the classification urged by the plaintiff is correct. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY "When aid to construction of the meaning of words,...the words may appear on 'superficial examination.' " United States v. Amer. Trucking Ass'ns., supra. Court No. 76-3-00651 Port of Chicago [Judgment for... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1940 - 824 pages
...States v. Ryan, 284 US 167, 176. " Ozawa v. United States, 260 US 178, 194. Opinion of the Court. 310 US the meaning of words, as used in the statute, is available,...the words may appear on "superficial examination." 23 The interpretation of the meaning of statutes, as applied to justiciable controversies, is exclusively... | |
| United States - Naval law - 1945 - 712 pages
...the .meaning of words, as used im the statute, is available, there certainly can *m no 'role of low* which forbids its use, however clear the words may appear on 'superficial examination.'" United States T. American Trucking Association. 310 US 534, 543-544, May 27, 1940. See also: States... | |
| United States. Department of Justice - Administrative law - 1949 - 674 pages
...Frequently, however, even when the plain meaning did not produce absurd results but merely an unreasonable one 'plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation...the words may appear on 'superficial examination.' * * *" Also, as stated by the Court in United States \. Dickerson, 310 US 554, 562, "the meaning to... | |
| Administrative law - 1983 - 240 pages
...the better rule is that stated by the Supreme Court in Train v. Colorado PIRG, 426 US 1, 10 (1976): When aid to construction of the meaning of words,...words may appear on superficial examination. See also Watt v. Alaska, 101 S. Ct 1673, 1677-78 (1981); Cabell v. Markham, 148 P.2d 737, 739 (2d Cir. 1945).... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Internal revenue - 1964 - 960 pages
...the tax." Likewise, the court in the American Trucking Ass'ns. case, supra, said (310 US 543-544) : "When aid to construction of the meaning of words,...the words may appear on 'superficial examination.' The interpretation of the meaning of statutes, as applied to justiciable controversies, Is exclusively... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1964 - 954 pages
...supra, .^" US r.4:;-r,i4) : , "When aid to construction of the meaning of words, as used in the t,ma i available, there certainly can be no 'rule of law' which forbids its use^^.^,/* ' clear the words may appear on 'superficial examination.' The lnie**"j^ ..jr# of the meaning at statutes,... | |
| United States. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals - Customs administration - 1953 - 260 pages
...Inc., et al., 310 U. 8. 534, 542, it was held among other things, that "When aid to construction of meaning of words, as used in the statute, is available,...the words may appear on "superficial examination. * * *." United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, November 4, 1952 Appeal from United States... | |
| United States. Internal Revenue Service - Internal revenue - 1979 - 644 pages
...Frequently, however, even when the plain meaning did not produce absurd results but merely an unreasonable one "plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation...the words may appear on "superficial examination." United States v. American Trucking Associations, 310 US 534, 54344 (1940). See also Corn Products Refining... | |
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