Associated Press
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A corporation organized under the laws of the state of Illinois in 1892, whose object is to buy, gather and accumulate information and news to vend, supply, distribute and publish the same; to purchase, erect, lease, operate and sell telegraph and telephone lines and other means of transmitting news to public periodicals; to make and deal in periodicals and other goods, wares and merchandise. 184 111. 442.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
An association to buy, gather and accumulate information and news; to vend, supply, distribute and publish the same. It is an association affected with a public its news without discrimination to all newspaper publishers who desire to purchase the same; Inter-Ocean Pub. Co. v. Associated Press, 184 111. 438, 56 N. E. 822, 48 L. R. A. 508, 75 Am. St. Rep. 184, and a by-law forbidding the furnishing news to or receiving news from an antagonistic person or corporation is void as creating a monopoly; id.