 | George Crabb - English language - 1816 - 788 pages
...professes to do. ART signifies that which is fol* lowed in the way of the arts. These words are synonymous in the sense of a calling, for the purpose of a livelihood. Business is general, trade and profession are particular. All trade is business, but all business is... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1818 - 918 pages
...professes to do. ART signifies that which is followed in the way of the arts. These words are synonymous in the sense of a calling, for the purpose of a livelihood : business is general, trade and profession are particular ; all trade is business, but all business... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1826 - 768 pages
...own ; he is opposed to one at leisure. BUSINESS, TRADE, PROFESSION, ART. These words are synonymous in the sense of a calling, for the purpose of a livelihood ; business (v. Business) is general ; trade, signifying that which employs the time by way of trade... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1826 - 736 pages
...professes to do. ART signifies that which is followed in the way of the arts. These words are synonymous in the sense of a calling, for the purpose of a livelihood : business is general, trade and profeition are particular ¡ all tratlc is business, but all 6мsiness... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 806 pages
...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1941 - 708 pages
..."hu-ni-neim." — Under the income-tux decisions of the Supreme Court "business" has been defined as "that which occupies the time, attention, and labor...of men for the purpose of a livelihood or profit," and whatever engages the time, attention, and labor of men in order to conserve what they have or to... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - Law - 1879 - 1054 pages
...person engaged in any business or employment to take out a license, are synonymous term», signifying that which occupies the time, attention, and labor...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, 10 Ala.... | |
 | Criminal law - 1922 - 624 pages
...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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1174 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
