Trading
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 12 U.S. 155 - The Rapid, Perry, Master · 1814Most cited · 36 citing opinions
in the prize law sense
If by trading, in prize law, was meant that signification of the term which consists in negotiation or contract, this case would certainly not come under the penalties of the rule. But the object, policy and spirit of the rule is to cut off all communication or actual locomotive intercourse between individuals of the belligerent states. Negotiation or contract has, therefore, no necessary connexion with the offence. Intercourse inconsistent with actual hostility, is the offence against which the operation of the rule is directed.
How often courts cite the cases defining “Trading”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “Trading” — 36 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 · 1804–1814
- ORIGINAL
a great variety of acts, each of which constitutes part of the thing.