Inspection laws
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Laws authorizing and directing the inspection and examination of various kinds of merchandise intended for sale, especially food, with a view to ascertaining its fitness for use, and excluding unwholesome or unmarketable goods from sale, and directing the appointment of official inspectors for that purpose. See Const. U. S. art.
1, § 10, cl. 2; Story, Const. § 1017, et seq. Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 202, 6 L. Ed. 23; Clintsman v. Northrop, 8 Cow. (N. Y.) 45; Patapseo Guano Co., v. Board of Agriculture, 171 U. S. 345 , 18 Sup. Ct. 862, 41 L. Ed. 191; Turner v. State, 55 Md. 263.