Commerce - Law Dictionary Search Results
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interstate commerce : commerce, traffic, transportation, and exchange between states of the U.S. see also commerce clause NOTE: While interstate commerce has been narrowly interpreted in judicial decisions in the past, more recent decisions have interpreted it more broadly and have allowed Congress to regulate internal or local activities that affect interstate commerce. For example, cattle crossing a state line while grazing and the movement of pollutants across state lines have been considered interstate commerce by federal courts in order to uphold Congress's regulatory jurisdiction. ...
use in commerce
use in commerce For the purpose of obtaining federal trademark registration, "commerce" means all commerce that the U.S. Congress may lawfully regulate; for example, interstate commerce or commerce between the U.S. and another country. "Use in commerce" must be a bona fide use of the mark in the ordinary course of trade, and not use simply made to reserve rights in the mark. Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...
commerce clause
commerce clause often cap both Cs : a clause in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution that empowers Congress to regulate interstate commerce and commerce with foreign countries and that forms the constitutional basis for much federal regulation see also Article I of the Constitution in the back matter ...
commerce
commerce 1 : the exchange or buying and selling of goods, commodities, property, or services esp. on a large scale and involving transportation from place to place : trade see also commerce clause Fair Labor Standards Act in the Important Laws section 2 : the act of engaging in sexual intercourse ...
interstate commerce
Commerce that involves transportation of articles of commerce across state lines...
Commerce
Commerce [fr. commutatio mercium, Lat.], the intercourse of nations in each other's produce and manufactures, in which the superfluities of one are given for those of another, and then re-exchanged with other nations for mutual wants. Commerce relates to our dealings with foreign nations, colonies, etc.; trade, to mutual dealings at home, See McCull. Com. Dict....
Sale or purchase of goods shall be deemed....inter-State trade or commerce
Sale or purchase of goods shall be deemed....inter-State trade or commerce, According to s. 3 of the Act, a sale or purchase of goods shall be deemed to take place in the course of inter-State trade or commerce. A sale of goods can be held to have taken place in the course of inter-State trade, if it can be shown that the sale has occasioned the movement of goods from one State to another. A sale in the course of inter-State trade has three essentials: (i) there must be sale, (ii) the goods must actually be moved from one State to another and (iii) the sale the movement of the goods must be part of the same transaction. The word 'occasions' is used as a verb and means to cause or to be the immediate cause of, Kelvinator of India Ltd. v. State of Haryana, AIR 1973 SC 2526: (1973) 2 SCC 551: (1974) 1 SCR 463....
Trade and commerce
Trade and commerce, means every business occupation carried on for subsistence or profit and involving the elements of bargain and sale, burter, exchange, or traffic, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1500.The words 'trade and commerce' in s. 3 of the Essential Supplies (Temporary Powers) Act, 1946, could be interpreted as including the export of goods outside the Province including a neighbour-ing foreign State, Darshan Singh v. State of Punjab, AIR 1953 SC 83 (86): (1953) SCR 319....
Use in transaction for trade or commerce
Use in transaction for trade or commerce, the expression 'use in transaction for trade or commerce' means use for the purpose of determining or declaring the quantity of anything in terms of measurement of length, area, volume, capacity or weight in or in connection with (a) any contract, whether by way of sale, purchase, exchange or otherwise, or (b) any assessment of royalty; toll; duty or other dues, or (c) the assessment of any work done or services rendered, otherwise than in relation to research or scientific studies or in individual households for household purpose, Mohan Meakins Breweries Ltd. v. Controller of Weights and Measures, AIR 1989 SC 959 (961): (1989) 2 SCC 405: (1989) 1 SCR 475. [U.P. Weights and Measures Enforcement Act (5 of 1959), s. 2 (JJ), 7]...
commerce power
commerce power see power ...
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