Commerce with foreign nations
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Case Law, Black's (1910)
Definitions from Case Law
From 55 U.S. 568 - Veazie v. Moor · 1852Most cited · 74 citing opinions
Commerce with foreign nations, must signify commerce which in some sense is necessarily connected with these nations, transactions which either immediately, or at some stage of their progress, must be extraterritorial. The phrase can never be applied to transactions wholly internal, between citizens of the same community, or to a polity and laws whose ends and purposes and operations are restricted to the territory and soil and jurisdiction of such community.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Commerce between citizens of the United States and citizens or subjects of foreign governments; commerce which, either immediately or at some stage of its progress, is extraterritorial. U. S. v. Holliday, 3 Wall. 409, 18 In Ed. 182 ; Veazie v. Moor, 14 How. 573, 14 L. EM. 545; Lord v. Steamship Co... 102 U. S. 544, 26 L. Ed. 224. The same as "foreign commerce," which see infra.
Defined under Commerce in Black's Law Dictionary.