 | United States. Department of Justice - 1902 - 768 pages
...Revised Statutes, or of any act or resolution of Congress passed subsequent to February 25, 1871, * * * the word person may extend and be applied to partnerships and corporations." * * * The word "corporations" may include municipal as well as private corporations. Hence the word... | |
 | United States - 1875 - 388 pages
...resolution of Congress passed ¡subsequent to February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, words importing the singular number may extend and...the masculine gender may be applied to females; the words "insane person" and "lunatic" shall include every idiot, non compos, lunatic, and insane person... | |
 | William A. Shinn - 1876 - 624 pages
...determining the meaning " of said statutes, or any act of Congress passed subsequent to February 25, 1871, " the word 'person' may extend and be applied to partnerships and corporations, ***** unless the context shows that such word was intended to be used in a more limited sense." , The... | |
 | James Kirby - 1878 - 658 pages
...the Revised Statutes, or of nuy act or resolution of Congress passed subsequent to February 25, 1871, words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things ; word« importing the masculine gender may be applied to females" etc., etc. Now as to '• immemorial... | |
 | Lewis Heyl - 1879 - 494 pages
...nearly as may be a single proposition of enactment. 688. SECTION 2. That in all acts hereafter passed words importing the singular number may extend and...the masculine gender may be applied to females ; the words " insane person " and " lunatic " shall include every idiot, non compos, lunatic, and insane... | |
 | 1882 - 1916 pages
...the statute itself, which says, in terms : "In determining the meaning of the Revised Statutes * * * the word ' person' may extend and be applied to partnerships and corporations." Page 1, tit. 1, c. 1, § 1. The provision of the constitution of the state of California in question,... | |
 | 1897 - 1036 pages
...lands were granted subject to the adjustment applicable to two«roads. And the general rule is that "words importing the singular number may extend and...Importing the plural number may include the singular," as provided In the first section of the Revised Statutes. Nor are we impressed with the argument that... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1883 - 796 pages
...4 statute itself, which says, in terms : " In determining the meaning of the Revised Statutes .... the word ' person ' may extend and be applied to partnerships and corporations." (Page 1, Tit. I., Chap. One, sec. 1.) The provision of the Constitution of the State of California... | |
 | Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - 1883 - 730 pages
...the statute itself, which says, in terms: "In determining the meaning of the revised statutes * * * the word ' person' may extend and be applied to partnerships and corporations." (Page 1, tit. I, c. 1, sec. 1.) Opinion of Sawyer, CJ, concurring. [September, Tlie provision of the... | |
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In determining the meaning of the Revised Statutes, or of any act or resolution of Congress passed subsequent to February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons... 
