Interstate Commerce Act
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Act Cong. Feb. 4, 1888, regulating interstate commerce, designed to secure reasonable and uniform charges for carriage of freight and passengers, and prevent rebates, preferences, and pooling. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISsion. A commission created by the interstate commerce act to enforce its provisions.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
The act of congress of February +, 1887, 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, ete., requiring schedules of rates to be published, establishing a commission to carry out the measures enacted, aud preseribing the powers and duties of such commission and the procedure before it. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COM-