sell
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 567 U.S. 142 - Christopher v. Smithkline Beecham Corp. · 2012Most cited · 194 citing opinions
any sale, exchange, contract to sell, consignment for sale, shipment for sale, or other disposition." Thus, under the general regulation, an outside salesman is any employee whose primary duty is making any sale, exchange, contract to sell, consignment for sale, shipment for sale, or other disposition.
How often courts cite the cases defining “sell”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “sell” — 352 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1879–2012
- ORIGINAL
sale,' and the word ' exchange ' refers to ' dispose of,' and, therefore, it comes to this, whether a trust including a power to dispose of by way of exchange for an equivalent in other lands, authorizes trustees to dispose of the undivided moiety, which they are empowered to dispose of, for another undivided moiety." This quotation shows that the words " dispose of " are properly applied to an exchange.