 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824
...undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more: it is intercourse. It describes the com1824. mercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations,...its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules fcr carrying on that intercourse. The mind can scarcely conceive a system for regulating commerce between... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 976 pages
...That commerce was traffic, but it was also something more, it was intercourse. It was descriptive of commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations, in all its branches, and was regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. That the mind could scarcely conceive... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Constitutional law - 1868 - 549 pages
...significations. Commerce undoubtedly is traffic ; but it is something more ; it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its branches, and is l 9 Wheaton's R. 189. regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. The mind can... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1874
...opinion commerce was something more than traffic or the transportation of property. It was also " the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its branches"; and it embraced, by necessary inference, all inter-State communications, and the whole subject of intercourse... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870
...said, " Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more; it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations in all its branches." The contract of insurance is inseparable from commerce in modern times. It has become its indispensable... | |
 | Law - 1896
...themselves traded in. Marshall forever settled the true rule. "Commerce is not merely traffic, it includes commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its branches. It must include navigation. It includes all vessels, whether carrying passengers or freight, whether... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871
...foreign nations, and among the several states," which describe, as Chief Justice MARSHALL says : " the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations, in all its branches," and, " every species of commercial intercourse between the United States and foreign nations." Gibbons v.... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875
...Chief Justice MARSHALL, "undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more; it i8 intercourse. It is the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts...nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribed rules for carrying on that intercourse." (9 Wheat. 189.) "Commerce," says Mr. Justice JOHNSON,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1875
...opinion commerce was something more than traffic or the transportation of property. It was also "the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its branches"; and it embraced, by necessary inference, all inter-State communications, and the whole subject of intercourse... | |
 | Alexander James Dallas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876
...and citizens or subjects of foreign governments." It means trade, and it means intercourse. It means commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches. It includes navigation, as the principal means by which foreign intercourse is effected. To regulate... | |
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Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more ; it is intercourse. ' It describes the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribed rules for carrying on that intercourse. 
