 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1889 - 788 páginas
...ordinary sale and disposal. The possession of them gives no right in the possessor to use them, or publish them, unless by the acquiescence of the originator....sale would be really a sale of knowledge, and not of property. Whether the tax lawn do or do not include things resembling these books in their nature... | |
 | 1887 - 1076 páginas
...ordinary sale and disposal. The possession of them gives no right in the possessor to use them, or publish them, unless by the acquiescence of the originator....sale would be really a sale -of knowledge, and not of property. Whether the tax laws do or do not include things resembling these books in their nature,... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1890 - 1032 páginas
...ordinary sale and disposal. The possession of them gives no right in the possessor to use them, or publish them, unless by the acquiescence of the originator....sale would be really a sale of knowledge, and not of property. Whether the tax laws do or do not include things resembling these books in their nature... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - 1892 - 882 páginas
...its contents, and thereby a man would be compelled to publish what he did not choose to publish. An attempt to make value out of such a sale would be really a sale of knowledge, and not property. As these books cannot be levied upon by execution, neither can they be levied upon to satisfy... | |
 | William Benjamin Hale - 1917 - 346 páginas
...ordinary sale and disposal. The possession of them gives no right in the possessor to use them, or publish them, unless by the acquiescence of the originator....sale would be really a sale of knowledge, and not of property." (2) But in a dissenting opinion by Morse. J., it was said: "The main issue to be determined... | |
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... necessary to rehearse or review what was there held. All civilized governments respect private manuscripts, and treat them as not partaking of the nature of property open to ordinary sale and disposal. The possession of them gives no right in the... 