United States v. Willings & Francis

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• concluding that Congress intended the word “when” in a federal maritime statute to mean “if’ or “in case” because the statute contained clear indicia of conditional intent (for example, the phrase “in every such case” recurred)
• concluding that Congress intended the word \when\ in a federal maritime statute to mean \if\ or \in case\ because the statute contained clear indicia of conditional intent (for example, the phrase \in every such case\ recurred)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).