embargo
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 485 U.S. 176 - Mart Corporation v. Cartier Inc 47th Street Photo Inc · 1988Most cited · 218 citing opinions
a "governmentally imposed" import prohibition, ante, at 185, but it seems to me that its analysis departs from that truth.
How the Supreme Court has restated “embargo”
Each Supreme Court definition of “embargo,” sized by how often later courts cited it. “Change” is measured by wording overlap with earlier definitions — a rough signal, not a semantic judgment.
How often courts cite the cases defining “embargo”
Court decisions citing the 3 opinions that defined “embargo” — 249 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 3 definitions, chronological · 1817–1988
- ORIGINAL
The language of the act is certainly not very happily chosen; but when we look into the definition of the word embargo we find it to mean 'a prohibition to sail.' Substituting this periphrasis for the word embargo, it reads 'a prohibition to sail shall be imposed,' &c. or, in other words, 'such vessels shall be prohibited to sail.
definition
An embargo is admitted to be a peril within the policy. But as has been already observed, the sovereign imposing the embargo is virtually in possession of the vessel, and may, therefore, be said to arrest and detain her. Yet, in fact, the vessel remains in the actual possession of the master or owner, and has the physical power to sail out and proceed on her voyage.
as peril of policy distinguished from mere shut port