Frazer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
June 1968
most recently cited
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Relies on Magone v. Wiederer · Magone v. Heller
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“The terms “blind” and “shutter,” insofar as applicable to this issue, are defined in Webster’s New International Dictionary, 1930 edition, and in Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary, 1930 edition, as follows: [Webster’s] : blind, n. 1. Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a coyer; specif.: a A screen for a window, either, as commonly in the United States, a hinged shutter, or, as commonly in England, a flexible shade mounted on a roller. Of. Venetian Blind. * * * [Funk & Wagnalls]: blind, n. 1. Something that obstructs vision or the passage of light: (1) A screen or shutter of slats, cloth, or other material placed before a window to exclude light or prevent observation from outside; a shade. * * * [Webster’s] : shutter, n. * * * A movable cover or screen for a window, to shut out the light, obstruct the view, or be a defense; a blind. * * * [Funk & Wagnalls]: shutter, n. * * * 2. That which shuts out or excludes; specif., a cover, usually hinged, for closing an opening. (1) A frame with blinds or panels, a cover made of boards and battens, or a blind of iron slats, for closing a window-opening. A shutter is usually solid, while a Mind is made with slats, movable or fixed. * * * While it appears from the foregoing that the words “shutter” and “blind” are defined in terms which refer to each other, we do not believe that it necessarily follows that all shutters are blinds. It would appear that the only shutters which' may be considered to be blinds are th”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * The shutters may be described as consisting of wooden frames approximately three-fourths of 1 to 1 inch thick and in sizes varying from 6 inches wide, by 20 inches long, to 16 inches wide and 80 inches long. In the center of each frame, there are wooden louvers or slats which, in some cases, are movable and, in others, are not, and, in some eases, particularly in the longer lengths, there is what has been called a ‘center divider rail’ which separates one set of louvers or slats from another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Tbe evidence indicates that no single use or class of uses preponderates over the others and that any or all of the imported shutters may be, and are, used for any or all of the uses by being cut or by being joined together to fit the particular place where it is desired to be used.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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