withhold
Defined in 3 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914)
United States Code
26 U.S.C. § 3405 — for purposes of this section
The terms “withholding”, “withhold”, and “withheld” include “deducting”, “deduct”, and “deducted”.
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action; to retain; to keep back; not to grant. 146 Iowa 360, 374, 140 Am. St. Rep. 282.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
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.