Business' is a very comprehensive term and embraces everything about which a person can be employed. Black's Law Diet., 158, citing People v. Commissioners of Taxes, 23 NY 242, 244, 'that which occupies the time, attention and labor of men for the purpose... United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... and Rules ... - Página 309de United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1913Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1917 - 806 páginas
...borrower in the name of the firm. 1915] SLOMAN v. BENDER. 263 The general definition of "business" is : "That which occupies the time, attention, and labor of men for the purpose of livelihood or profit." Black's Law Dictionary. See, also, 6 Cyc. p. 259. Nothing in the act suggests... | |
| United States. Court of Claims - 1941 - 708 páginas
...Supreme Court in one of the early tax decisions under the Corporation Excise Tax Law of 1909 defined business as "that which occupies the time, attention,...labor of men for the purpose of a livelihood or profit (Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Vol. 1, p. 273)." Flint v. Stone Tracy Co., 220 US 107, 171. Equally is... | |
| Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - 1879 - 1054 páginas
...person engaged in any business or employment to take out a license, are synonymous term», signifying that which occupies the time, attention, and labor of men for the purpose of a livelihood or profit. Business is there understood in the x-nse of a calling for the purpose of a livelihood. Moore r. State,... | |
| 1922 - 624 páginas
...Stone Tracy Co. (220 IT. S. 171), Day, J., for the court repeats this language and defines the words as " That which occupies the time, attention and labor...of men for the purpose of a livelihood or profit," quoting Bouvier. But a business does not imply an exclusive occupation ; a series of acts may constitute... | |
| 1911 - 1172 páginas
...760. it Is said: "* * * To 'engage in or carry on business' has been uniformly construed as signifying 'that which occupies the time, attention and labor of men, for the purpose of a livelihood or proflt.' " In the case of Stute v. Napier, 63 SC 60, 41 SE 13, it is held, In substance, that the words... | |
| 1920 - 932 páginas
...procure a living." Allen v. Com., 188 Mass. 59, 74 NE 287, 69 LRA 599. Business has been said to be "that which occupies the time, attention and labor...of men for the purpose of a livelihood or profit." Flint v. Stone Tracy Co., 220 US 107, 171, 31 Sup. Ct. 342, 357 (55 L. Ed. 389, Ann. Cas. 1912B, 1312).... | |
| 1915 - 1106 páginas
...person can be employed. Black's Law Diet. 158, citing People v. Commissioners of Taxes, 23 NY 242, 244. 'That which occupies the time, attention and labor...of men for the purpose of a livelihood or profit.' Bouvier'e Law Dictionary, vol. 1, p. 273. We think it is clear that corporations organized for the... | |
| 1908 - 1256 páginas
..."That which occupies the time, attention, and labor of men for the purpose of a livelihood or profit; that which occupies the time, attention, and labor of men for the purpose of profit or improvement." The first definition is in terms quoted from the case of Lyons Thomas Hdw.... | |
| 1894 - 1224 páginas
...procure a living." Goddard v. Chaffee. 2 Allen, 395. "It is the synonym of 'employment,' signifying that which, occupies the time, attention, and labor...of men for the purpose of a livelihood or profit." Martin v. State, 59 Ala. 36. The corporation making the conveyance in question was a private trading... | |
| New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - 1921 - 1118 páginas
...158; citing Parker Mills v. Commissioners of Taxes, 23 NY 242, 244.] ' That which occupies the tune, attention and labor of men for the purpose of a livelihood or profit.' Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Vol. 1, p. 273. We think it is clear that corporations organized for the... | |
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