 | United States. Department of State - 1896 - 908 pages
...THE CONSULAR SERVICE. TITLE I. (Sec. 1-ia) GENERAL PROVISIONS. 778. In determining the meaning of the revised statutes, or of any act or resolution of Congress...the singular; words importing the masculine gender may be applied to females; the words "insane person "and " lunatic " shall include every idiot, non... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1896 - 908 pages
...CONSULAR SERVICE. TITLE I. (Sec. 1-ia) GENERAI., PROVISIONS. 778. In determining the meaning of the revised statutes, or of any act or resolution of Congress...the singular: words importing the masculine gender may be applied to females; the words "insane person "and "lunatic" shall include every idiot, non compos,... | |
 | United States - 1900 - 482 pages
...SKC. 1, RS In determining the meaning of the Revised Statutes, or of any act or resolution of Congrega passed subsequent to February twenty-fifth, eighteen...hundred and seventy-one, words importing the singular nuuiber may extend mid be applied to several persons or things; words importing the plural number may... | |
 | United States - 1911 - 518 pages
...association, company, or corporation, as weU as a natural person. SEC. 1, RS In determining the meaning of the Revised Statutes, or of any act or resolution of Congress...the singular: words importing the masculine gender may be applied to females; * * the word "person" may extend and be applied to partnerships and corporations,... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1919 - 1138 pages
...appropriate meaning in the law shall be construed and understood according to such meaning. Fourth, 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 and to corporations. Fifth, Words... | |
 | United States - 1920 - 1064 pages
...company, or corporation, as well as a natural person. SEC. 1, It. S. In (letermining the meaning of the Revised Statutes, or of any act or resolution of Congress...the singular; words importing the masculine gender iiiay be applied to females; * * * the word “person” may extend and be applied to part nerships... | |
 | United States. Internal Revenue Service - 1920 - 118 pages
...160° or more, and does not include the substances commonly known as whisky, brandy, rum, or gin. (¿) Words importing the plural number may include the singular; words importing the masculine gender may be applied to females, associations, copartnerships, and corporations. ( j) The initials " USP"... | |
 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper - 1886 - 1150 pages
...forty-third congress, June 20, 1875, in which occur the following words : In determining the meaning of the Revised Statutes, or of any 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... | |
 | United States. General Accounting Office - 1928 - 1012 pages
...act of June 10, 1922. Section 1 of the Revised Statutes provides: In determining the meaning of the Revised Statutes, or of any act or resolution of Congress...subsequent to February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred iind seventy-one, * * *; words importing the plural number may Include the singular; * * *, unless... | |
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assembled, In determining the meaning of the Definitions. 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... 
