 Commerce is a term of the largest import. It comprehends intercourse for the purposes of trade in any and all its forms, including the transportation, purchase, sale, and exchange of commodities...  The Central Law Journal - Page 541908Full view - About this book
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922
...construing the commerce clause. Thus it was said in Welton v. Missouri, 91 US 275, 280 : " 'Commerce is a term of the largest import. It comprehends intercourse...transportation, purchase, sale, and exchange of commodities.' "In Kidd v. Pearson, 128 US 1, 20 (9 Sup. Ct. 6), it was tersely said: " 'Buying and selling and the... | |
 | Law - 1876
...brevity of expression and a breadth of meaning. Thus, it is said, in Welton v. Missouri : " Commerce is a term of the largest import. It comprehends intercourse for the purpose of trade in any and all its forms," (page 280.) And again, as illustrative of those principles... | |
 | Orlando Bump - Constitutional law - 1878 - 424 pages
...and is co-extensive with the subject to which it relates. Lin Sing v. Washburn, 20 Cal. 534. Commerce comprehends intercourse for the purposes of trade...and exchange of commodities between the citizens of the United States and the citizens or subjects of other countries, and between the citizens of the... | |
 | American Bar Association - Law - 1905
...(Per Mr. Justice Curtis in Cooley vs. The Board of Wardens of Philadelphia, 12 How. 299.) "Commerci- is a term of the largest import. It comprehends intercourse...sale and exchange of commodities between the citizens or subjects of other countries and between the citizens of different states. The power to regulate... | |
 | Law - 1879
...of life." 5& " Commerce is a term of the largest import. It comprehends intercourse for the purpose of trade in any and all its forms, including the transportation,...between the citizens of our country and the citizens of other countries, and between the citizens of different states. The power to regulate it embraces... | |
 | American Bar Association - Law - 1887
...Commerce is a term of the largest import. It comprehends intercourse for the purpose of trade in all of its forms, including the transportation, purchase,...and exchange of commodities between the citizens of one country and the citizens or subjects of other countries, and between the citizens of different... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1907
...v. Ogden, 22 US 1, 6 L. Ed. 23, it has been held to be a term of the largest import, comprehending intercourse for the purposes of trade in any and all its forms, including transportation. For a full collation of the authorities on that subject, see the Lottery Cases, 188... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904
...direct connection with interstate commerce, and that such commerce comprehended intercourse for all the purposes of trade in any and all its forms, including...purchase, sale, and exchange of commodities between citizens of different states, and the power to regulate it embraced all the instrumentalities by which... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1899
...decided in this court that it is a term of very large significance. It comprehends, as it is said. Intercourse for the purposes of trade in any and all Its forms, including transportation, purchase, sale, and exchange of commodities between the citizens of different slates,... | |
 | Law - 1876
...brevity of expression and a breadth of meaning. Thus, it is said, in Welton v. Missouri: " Commerce is a term of the largest import. It comprehends intercourse for the purpose of trade in any and all its forms," (page 280.) And again, as illustrative of those principles... | |
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