· 2/9/1940
Protests 782611-G of Central Medeira Corp.
Citations
- 4 Cust. Ct. 396
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that a tax is a debt and “one can not be imprisoned for the mere failure to pay taxes, in the absence of ... fraud.”
- defining a debt as “[a]ll that is due a man under any form of obligation or promise.”
- defining a debt as \[a]ll that is due a man under any form of obligation or promise.\
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