 | United States, United States. Department of Agriculture. Office of the Solicitor - 1945 - 930 pages
...determining the meaning of any Act or resolution of Congress, passed subsequent to February 25, 1871, rer from time to time and not less frequently than once every two years. (June 26, 1934, words "insane person" and "lunatic" shall include every idiot, non compos, lunatic, and insane person;... | |
 | United States. Civil Aeronautics Board - 1945 - 2460 pages
...part : "In determining the meaning of an act or resolution of Congress • • * words Importing a singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things ; * * * unless the context shows that snrh words were intended to be used In a more limited sense."... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation - 1946 - 428 pages
...resolution of Congress passed subsequent to February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, words importing the singular number may extend and....number may include the singular; words .importing t^e mu.-riiline gender may be applied to females; the words 'insane person" and 'lunatic' shall include... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1946 - 980 pages
...respondent. We may note, however, in passing that § 1 of the Revised Statutes, 1 USC § 1, provides that "words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things." Beyond that is the fact that we are construing a provision of a tariff act designed, as we have said,... | |
 | United States. Navy Department - 1948 - 1008 pages
...construction enacted by the Congress that "In determining the meaning of any Act or resolution of Congress words Importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things." (RS § 1 ; 1 USC § 1.) The same principle would appear to be applicable to "heroism." Accordingly,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Internal Revenue Taxation Joint Committee - 1949 - 594 pages
...DENOTING NUMBER, GENDER. AND SO FORTH. In determining the meaning of any Act or resolution of Congress, 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;... | |
 | United States - 1949 - 592 pages
...DENOTING NUMBER, GENDER. AND SO FORTH. In determining the meaning of any Act or resolution of Congress, 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;... | |
 | United States - 1921 - 810 pages
...resolution of Congress passed subsequent to February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, words importing the singular number may extend and...plural number may Include the singular; words importing Hie masculine gender may be applied to females; the words "insane person" mid "lunatic" shall include... | |
 | 1992 - 686 pages
...furnished upon application to the Secretary of the Administration. § 201.8 Use of gender and number. Words importing the singular number may extend and...importing the plural number may include the singular; and words importing the masculine gender may be applied to females. §201.9 Suspension, amendment,... | |
 | 1972 - 342 pages
...recorded statement of all proceedings at an oral hearing. § 1100.6 Use of gender and number. (Rule 6) Words importing the singular number may extend and...importing the plural number may include the singular; and words importing the masculine gender may be applied to females. PRACTiTiONERS § 1100.7 Register... | |
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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... 
