Adulteration
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Case Law, Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Bouvier (1839)
Definitions from Case Law
From 232 U.S. 399 - United States of America v. Lexington Mill & Elevator Company · 1914Most cited · 319 citing opinions
It is not required that the article of food containing added poisonous or other added deleterious ingredients must affect the public health, and it is not incumbent upon the government in order to make out a case to establish that fact. The act has placed upon the government the burden of establishing, in order to secure a verdict of condemnation under this statute, that the added poisonous or deleterious substances must be such as may render such article injurious to health. The word 'may' is here used in its ordinary and usual signification, there being nothing to show the intention of Congress to affix to it any other meaning. It is, says Webster, 'an auxiliary verb, qualifying the meaning of another verb, by expressing ability, ... contingency or liability, or possibility or probability.
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The act of corrupting or debasing; the act of mixing something impure or spurious with something pure or genuine, or an inferior article with a superior one of the same kind. ADULTERATOR (Lat.) A corrupter; a counterfeiter. Adulterator monetae, a forger. Du Cange.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
The act of corrupting or debasing; the act of mixing something one of the same kind. See 16 ML & W. 644; State v. Norton, 24 N. C. 40. See Food and Drug Laws. ADULTERATOR (Lat.). A corrupter; a counterfeiter. Adulterator monetw. A forger. Du Cange.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
The act of corrupt- ‘ing or debasing. The term is generally applied tothe act of mixing up with food or drink intended to be sold ether matters of an inferior quality, and usually of a more or less deleterious quality. It is not clear that the addition of a wholesoma article, a8 of pura water to milk, is adulterating. 45 Park. Crim. R. $11.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
in criminal law, is a general term for rendering the public coin of less value than it ought to be; which comprehends debasing the coin, by the admixture of improper metals, or the use of any undue alloy, &c. and counterevting the coin, which is forging a stamp to resemble the true coin upon baser metal. This is always done with a fraudulent purpose and is punishable by fine and imprisonment.