Interstate
Defined in 3 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Black's (1910), Anderson (1889)
United States Code
7 U.S.C. § 150AA — as used in this chapter
“Interstate” means from one State, Territory, or District (including possessions and the District of Columbia) of the United States into or through any other such State, Territory, or District.
7 U.S.C. § 7702 — in this chapter
The term “interstate” means—
(A) from one State into or through any other State; or
(B) within the District of Columbia, Guam, the Virgin Islands of the United States, or any other territory or possession of the United States.
18 U.S.C. § 841 — as used in this chapter
“Interstate” or foreign commerce means commerce between any place in a State and any place outside of that State, or within any possession of the United States (not including the Canal Zone) or the District of Columbia, and commerce between places within the same State but through any place outside of that State. “State” includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the possessions of the United States (not including the Canal Zone).
21 U.S.C. § 134 — in this section
The term “interstate” means from a State or other area included in the definition of “United States” to or through any other State or other such area.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Between two or more states; between places or persons in different states; concerning or affecting two or more slates politically or territorially.
— Interstate commerce. Traffic, intercourse, commercial trading, or the transportation of persons or property between or among the several states of the Union, or from or between points in one state and points in another slate ; commerce between two states, or between places Lying in different states. Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 194, 6 L. Ed. 23 ; Wabash, etc. R. Co. v. Illinois, 118 U. S. 557, 7 Sup. Ct. 4, 30 L. Ed. 244; Louisville & N. R. Co. v. Railroad Com'rs (C. C.) 19 Fed. 701.
— Interstate commerce aet. The act of congress of February 4, 1887 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3154), designed to regulate commerce between the states, and particularly the transportation of persons and property, by carriers, between interstate points, prescribing that charges for such transportation shall be reasonable and just, prohibiting unjust discrimination, rebates, draw-backs, preferences, pooling of freights, etc., requiring schedules of rates to be published, establishing a commission to carry out the measures enacted, and prescribing the powers and duties of such commission and the procedure before it
— Interstate commerce commission. A commission created by the interstate commerce act (q. v.) to carry out the measures therein enacted, composed of five persons, appointed by the President, empowered to inquire into the business of the carriers affected, to enforce the law, to receive, investigate, and determine complaints made to them of any violation of the act, make annual reports, hold stated sessions, etc.
— Interstate extradition. The reclamation and surrender, according to due legal proceedings, of a person who, having committed a crime in one of the states of the Union, has fled into another state to evade justice or escape prosecution.
— Interstate law. That branch of private international law which affords rules and principles for the determination of controversies between citizens of different states in respect to muinal rights or obligations, in so far as the same are affected by the diversity of their citizenship or by diversity in the laws or institutions of the several states.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889