State ex rel. Dawson’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions

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1. ““The words 'actually engaged/ in common parlance, mean 'really or truly engaged’ — engaged in fact, and, according to the same law of common use, are the opposite or antithesis of 'seemingly’ or ‘pretendedly’ or 'feignedly engaged.’ In the common acceptation of the words, the same man may be ‘actually engaged’ in two or more pursuits or occupations at the same time. We have numerous instances in our country where the same man is, at the same time, a merchant and a planter, a physician and a planter, a lawyer, or a judge, and a planter. In fact it is a common thing for men of good property to combine the business of planting with some other pursuit or occupation. Many men do not stop at two, but unite in themselves three or four, in all of which, according to common parlance, they are actually engaged.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Pierce