Rectifier
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Any person, firm, or corporation who rectifies, purifies, or refines distilled spirits or wine by any process, or who, by mixing distilled spirits or wine with any materials, manufactures any spurious imitation, or compounds liquors for sale, under the name of whiskey, brandy, gin, rum, wine, spirits, or wine bitters, or any other name.
Act of July 13, 1866, § 9, 14 Stat, at L. 117.
Rectifier, as used in the internal revenue laws, is not confined to a person who runs spirits through charcoal; but any one who rectifies or purifies spirits in any manner whatever, or who makes any mixture of spirits with any thing else, and sells it under any name, is a rectifier.
Quantity of Distilled Spirits, 3 Ben. 70; 2 Am. L. T. U. S. Cts. 23.