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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

Withholding property is not equivalent to concealing property. To withhold commissions implies a temporary suspension rather than a total and final denial or rejection of the same.

U. S. v. Dumas, 149 U. S. 278, 13 Sup. Ct. 872, 37 L. Ed. 734.