Agricultural Commerce: The Organization of American Commerce in Agricultural Commodities

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D. Appleton, 1924 - Agriculture - 529 pages

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Page 437 - ... subject to all the terms and provisions of, and all the exemptions from liability contained in, the act of Congress of the United States, approved on February 13, 1893, and entitled "An act relating to the navigation of vessels, etc...
Page 363 - The farmers' cooperatives exempt from taxation to the extent provided in subsection (a) are farmers', fruit growers', or like associations organized and operated on a cooperative basis (A) for the purpose of marketing the products of members or other producers, and turning back to them the proceeds of sales, less the necessary marketing expenses...
Page 436 - Act of public enemies. g. Arrest or restraint of princes, rulers or people, or seizure under legal process.
Page 220 - ... or owners of the goods shall contribute with the carrier in General Average to the payment of any sacrifices, losses or expenses of a general average nature that may be made or incurred and shall pay salvage and special charges incurred in respect of the goods.
Page 217 - ... within nine months after delivery of the property (or, in case of export traffic, within nine months after delivery at port of export) or, in case of failure to make delivery, then within nine months after a reasonable time for delivery has elapsed...
Page 185 - The provisions of this section shall be deemed fully incorporated into any such contract if there be written or printed thereon, or on the memorandum evidencing the same, at or prior to the time the same is signed, the phrase "Subject to Internal Revenue Code, section 4864.
Page 76 - They shall also be required to furnish daily, to the same registrar, a correct statement of the amount of each kind and grade of grain received in store in such warehouse on the previous day; also the amount of each kind and grade of grain delivered or shipped by such warehouseman during the previous day, and what warehouse receipts have been...
Page 185 - Provide that cotton of or within the grade or of the type, or according to the sample or description specified in the contract shall be delivered thereunder, and that no cotton which does not conform to the type, sample, or description, or which is not of or within the grade specified in the contract shall be tendered or delivered thereunder. (4) Provision for specific performance. Provide that the delivery of cotton under the contract shall not be effected by means of "setoff" or "ring" settlement,...
Page 363 - That persons engaged in the production of agricultural products as farmers, planters, ranchmen, dairymen, nut or fruit growers may act together in associations, corporate or otherwise, with or without capital stock, in collectively processing, preparing for market, handling, and marketing in interstate and foreign commerce such products of persons so engaged.
Page 216 - No carrier or party in possession of all or any of the property herein described shall be liable for any loss thereof or damage thereto or delay caused by the act of God, the public enemy, the authority of law, or the act or default of the shipper or owner, or for natural shrinkage.

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