 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 prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.  Supreme Court Reporter - Page 3211903Full view - About this book
 | Boston Board of Trade - Boston (Mass.) - 1866 - 218 pages
...traffic ; but it is something more. It is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse." And again : " In regulating commerce with foreign nations, the power of Congress does not stop at the... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1868 - 384 pages
...there is nothing to justify such a limitation. Commerce undoubtedly is traffic ; but it is something more. It is intercourse. It describes the commercial...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. The mind can scarcely conceive a system for regulating commerce between nations, which shall exclude... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Constitutional law - 1868 - 570 pages
...to many objects, to one of its significations. Commerce undoubtedly is traffic ; but it is something more ; it is intercourse. It describes the commercial...nations and parts of nations in all its branches, and is l 9 Wheaton's R. 189. regulated by prescribing rules for cawying on that intercourse. The mind can... | |
 | Law - 1892 - 554 pages
...Wheat. 448. " Commerce undoubtedly is traffic," said Chief Justice Marshall, " but it is something more ; it is intercourse. it describes the commercial...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse." Unquestionably fermented, distilled or other intoxicating liqnors or liquids are subjects of commercial... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 582 pages
...Telegraph Co. tion, but sufficient to include all the ramifications of commerce. Says Marshall, CJ : " It describes the commercial intercourse between nations,...prescribing rules for -carrying on that intercourse." (Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheaton, 1.) Is telegraphy any branch of commercial intercourse ? To ask the question... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 738 pages
...Qibbons v. Ogden* Chief Justice Marshall said, " Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more; it is intercourse. It describes the commercial...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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1874 - 558 pages
...his 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... | |
 | Law - 1896 - 866 pages
...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 - 670 pages
...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.... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 752 pages
...nothing to justify such a limitation. Commerce undoubtedly is traffic ; but it is something more. I> is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. The mind can scarcely conceive a system for regulating commerce between nations, which shall exclude... | |
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