bonded warehouse
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 81 U.S. 44 - Henderson's Distilled Spirits · 1871Most cited · 113 citing opinions
Bonded warehouses are established for the storage of spirits to be placed therein to secure the payment of the duties imposed by law.
How often courts cite the cases defining “bonded warehouse”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “bonded warehouse” — 120 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 · 1866–1871
- ORIGINAL
no store could be constituted such a warehouse unless it was a first-class fire-proof store, according to the classification of insurance offices, and was first proved to be such to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, and was by him authorized to be used for the storage of dutiable merchandise. Until so selected by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the bond given by the owner as required, no store of a private owner could be used for the storing of dutiable importations; and when so selected and bonded, and placed under the customs locks, the store was under the control of the collector, and was as much a public storehouse as one owned or formally leased by the United States