United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... and Rules Announced at ..., Volume 316

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Page 159 - person," or "persons," wherever used in this act shall be deemed to include corporations and associations existing under or authorized by the laws of either the United States, the laws of any of the Territories, the laws of any State, or the laws of any foreign country.
Page 121 - ... divulge or publish the existence, contents, purport, effect, or meaning of the same or any part thereof, or use the same or any information therein contained for his own benefit or for the benefit of another not entitled thereto.
Page 156 - Any person who shall be Injured in his business or property by any other person or corporation by reason of anything forbidden or declared to be unlawful by this act, may sue therefor In any circuit court of the United States In the district in which the defendant resides or Is found, without respect to the amount In controversy, and shall recover threefold the damages by him sustained, and the costs of suit, including a reasonable attorney's fee. "Sec. 8. That the word 'person...
Page 293 - Many forms of conduct permissible in a workaday world for those acting at arm's length, are forbidden to those bound by fiduciary ties. A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
Page 113 - ... no person not being authorized by the sender shall intercept any communication and divulge or publish the existence, contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning of such intercepted communication to any person...
Page 123 - The essence of a provision forbidding the acquisition of evidence in a certain way is that not merely evidence so acquired shall not be used before the court but that it shall not be used at all.
Page 198 - I recognize without hesitation that judges do and must legislate, but they can do so only interstitially; they are confined from molar to molecular motions.
Page 6 - For the purpose of regulating Interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the united States a rapid, efficient, nation-wide, and worldwide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges...
Page 472 - ... may be put on trial without a proper charge, and convicted upon Incompetent evidence, or evidence Irrelevant to the issue or otherwise inadmissible. He lacks both the skill and knowledge adequately to prepare his defense, even though he have a perfect one. He requires the guiding hand of counsel at every step In the proceedings against him. Without It, though he be not guilty, he faces the danger of conviction because he does not know how to establish his innocence.
Page 58 - ... the value of the gross estate certain specified deductions. The gross estate is to be valued as follows: "Sec. 202. That the value of the gross estate of the decedent shall be determined by including the value at the time of his death...

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