In re Hempstead’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate ·

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1. ““As to the third question, that because the book was imported in unbound sheets it was not a book and, therefore, not entitled to free entry, it is not necessary to say more than that no such narrow definition of the word ‘book’ can be accepted by the Court. The statute itself does not undertake to make' any such distinction. The collected sheets containing in orderly and connected fashion the record of the intellectual and literary work of the author is a book unless for some particular and' special purpose a narrower definition is prescribed by law. The object of the statute was evidently to remove as far as possible obstructions to the freest possible circulation of the results of original scientific inquiry tending to the advancement of learning and the benefit of humanity.” 95 Fed. 967 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Read v. Certain Merchandise Imported By O. G. Hempstead & Son

2. ““410. Books, engravings, photographs, bound or unbound, etchings, music, maps and charts, which shall have been printed more than twenty years * *• * and all * * * scientific books and periodicals devoted to original scientific research,” etc.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Macmillan Co. v. United States