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  • For purposes of this part, part II, and chapter 3, the term “trade or business within the United States” includes the performance of personal services within the United States at a

  • The fact that it is cooperative, and procures service and facilities on behalf of its members only, does not remove its activities from the sphere of business. If, as we hold, the

  • For purposes of this subsection, the term "trade or service receivable" means any account receivable or evidence of indebtedness arising out of— (A) the disposition by a

  • The terms “Trade Policy Committee” and “TPC” mean the interagency organization established under section 1872 of this title .

  • The terms “broker” and “trader” mean a person that assists in arranging an international transaction in a listed chemical by— (A) negotiating contracts; (B) serving as an agent or

  • The term “trade remedy laws” means title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 ( 19 U.S.C. 1671 et seq.).

  • The term “Trade Representative” means the United States Trade Representative. / The term “Trade Representative” means the United States Trade Representative. / The term “Trade Repr

  • The trade right of the respondent, however, whether with respect to the complete structure or its separate parts, is merely the right to have that which it lawfully produces freely

  • The term 'trade routes' serves as a general designation both for the lists of customers built up by solicitation over the years and for the continued hold of the Laundry upon their

  • i. To deliver; to transfer the possession.

  • the term “trade secret” means all forms and types of financial, business, scientific, technical, economic, or engineering information, including patterns, plans, compilations, prog

  • The owner of a trade secret is protected against invasion of his rights therein by fraud or breach of trust or contract; Tabor v. Hoffman, 118 N. Y. 36, 23 N. E. 12, 16 Am. St. Rep

  • a tradesman 'as substantially the same as shopkeeper.'... 'one who makes it his business to buy merchandise or goods or chattels to sell again for the purpose of making a profit.

  • A combination by employers or employees to regulate the price of labor is, within limits, valid at common law; but, carried to violence in any phase, is illegal.' Statute 6 Geo. IV

  • A contract, combination, confederation or understanding, express or implied, written or oral, between two or more persons, to control the price of a commodity or services for the b

  • An association of workmen, usually, but not necessarily, employed ■wages and conditions of labor. Popularly abbreviated to "union."

  • The statute 34 & 35 Viet. c. 31, passed in 1871, for the purpose of giving legal recognition to trade unions, is town as the "trade-union act," or "trade-union funds protection act

  • A usage connected with the practice of a particular trade. '

  • As a general rule, there must be ambiguity or uncertainty upon the face of the written instrument, arising out of the terms used by the parties, in order to justify the extraneous

  • In ascertaining the amount which is so applicable, the plaintiffs contend that one of the learned professions may be taken as the standard, with as much propriety as the trade or a

  • Span. In Spanish law. Delivery. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit 2, c. 9.

  • I have leased.

  • a great variety of acts, each of which constitutes part of the thing.

  • The term “trading account” means any account used for acquiring or taking positions in the securities and instruments described in paragraph (4) principally for the purpose of sell

  • See Corporation.

  • Such corporations as are engaged in trading or trading and commerce, including all corporations engaged in a business which properly falls within the definition of trading. Fletche

  • The term “trading facility” means a person or group of persons that constitutes, maintains, or provides a physical or electronic facility or system in which multiple participants h

  • The term "trading partner" means— (A) a manufacturer, repackager, wholesale distributor, or dispenser from whom a manufacturer, repackager, wholesale distributor, or disp

  • wherever the business, according to the usual mode of conducting it, imports, in its nature, the necessity of buying and selling, the firm is then properly regarded as a trading pa

  • The current name for a method of conducting some kinds of retail business which consists of an agreement between a number of merchants and a corporation that the latter shall print

  • A rather vague and variable standard, meaning such value as an ingenious and energetic puffing would lead the buyer to believe he could realize TRADITIO (Lat.) In the Civil Law. De

  • One which contemplates the touching and stopping of the vessel at various ports for the purpose of traffic or sale and purchase or exchange of commodities on account of the owners

  • every kind of trading or commercial dealing or intercourse, whether by transmission of money or of goods, or orders for the delivery of either between two countries (at war), direc

  • By the general law of war, every American ship, sailing under the pass or license of the enemy, or trading with the enemy, is deemed to be an enemy's ship, and forfeited as prize.

  • If by trading, in prize law was meant that signification of the term which consists in negotiation or contract, this case would not come under the penalties of the rule. But the ob

  • The sailing on a voyage under the license and passport of protection of the enemy, in furtherance of his views or interests, constitutes such an act of illegality, as subjects the

  • In the civil law. An exception or plea of the sale and delivery of the thing. This exception presumes that there was a valid sale and a proper tradition; but though, in consequence

  • Lat In the civll law. Delivery; transfer of possession; a derivative mode of acquiring, by which the owner of a corporeal thing, having the right and the will of aliening it, trans

  • A species of constructive or implied delivery. When he who already holds possession of a thing in another's name agrees with that other that thenceforth he shall possess it in his

  • The delivery of goods by consent, with no physical act.

  • Delivery of keys; a symbolical kind of delivery, by which the ownership of merchandise in a warehouse might be transferred to a buyer. Inst. 2, 1, 44.

  • The delivery of the keys. See Symbolic delivery .

  • A species of delivery which takes place where the transferor places the article in the hands of the transferee, or, on his order, delivers it at his house. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 284

  • It was resolved, that 'from henceforth' should be accounted from the day of delivery of the indentures, and not from the day of their date; for the words of an indenture are not of

  • Delivery makes a deed speak. 5 Coke, la. Delivery gives effect to the words of a deed. Id.

  • Knowledge, belief, or practices transmitted orally from father to son or from ancestor to posterity. See 68 Vt. 366, 35 L. R. A. 794, 35 Atl. 77.

  • The term “traditional American history” means— (A) the significant constitutional, political, intellectual, economic, and foreign policy trends and issues that have shaped the cour

  • The term "traditional food" means food that has traditionally been prepared and consumed by an Indian tribe. / The term "traditional food" includes— (i) wild ga

  • The term “traditional forest or fiber product” means a forest or fiber product that is derived from forest or agricultural materials and does not have substantial new properties.

  • The term "traditional fuel" means a liquid hydrocarbon fuel derived or refined from petroleum. / The term "traditional fuel" means a liquid hydrocarbon fuel der

  • The term “traditional leaders” has the meaning given the term in section 2902 of title 25 . / The term “traditional leaders” includes Native Americans who have special expertise in

  • Subject to clause (ii), for the purposes of this paragraph the term “traditionally underplanted acreage” means the difference in a particular year between the acreage that is part

  • The term “traditional Native Hawaiian healer” means a practitioner— (A) who— (i) is of Hawaiian ancestry, and (ii) has the knowledge, skills, and experience in direct personal heal

  • The term “traditional or cultural use” means— (A) a ceremonial activity (including the placing of ceremonial materials in the Area); and (B) the use, hunting, trapping, or gatherin

  • Evidence derived from tradition or reputation or the statements formerly made by persons since deceased, in regard to questions of pedigree, ancient boundaries, and the like, where

  • Delivery ought to, and can transfer nothing more to him who receives than is in the possession of him who delivers.

  • Delivery ought to, and can, transfer nothing more to him who receives than is with him who delivers. Dig. 41, 1, 20, pr.

  • The delivery of the thing.

  • A traitor.

  • He is delivered up on bail.

  • ete. An ancient writ that lay to the customer of a port to permit one to pass wool without paying custom, he having paid it before in Wales. Reg. Orig. 279.

  • The terms of the act of congress seem to imply an intentional offence on the part of the owners... when there is no such intention; when the vessel has been absolutely forced, by s

  • The term "trafficking documentation" means— (A) documentation of— (i) a determination that a consumer is a victim of trafficking made by a Federal, State, or Tribal gover

  • For purposes of this section and section 2259A, the term “trafficking in child pornography” means conduct proscribed by section 2251(d), 2252, 2252A(a)(1) through (5), 2252A(g) (in

  • The term “traffic signal module” means a standard 8-inch (200mm) or 12-inch (300mm) traffic signal indication that— (A) consists of a light source, a lens, and all other parts nece

  • The term “traffic signal preemption transmitter” means any mechanism that can change or alter a traffic signal’s phase time or sequence.

  • As used in this paragraph, the term “traffics in” refers to transactions that include, but are not limited to, sales, purchases, loans, pledges, licenses, exchanges of currency, an

  • A drawer.

  • To draw.

  • Traildefined inU.S. Code

    The term “Trail” means the Votes for Women History Trail Route designated under subsection (b).

  • See Justice of Trail Baston.

  • “trailer” means a nonpower, property-carrying, trailing unit that is designed for use in combination with a truck tractor.

  • all piggyback service is, by its essential nature, bimodal. It partakes of both the railroad and the trucking functions.

  • Trailer transporter towing unit.—The term "trailer transporter towing unit" means a power unit that is not used to carry property when operating in a towaway trailer tran

  • The term "trail maintenance" means any activity to maintain the usability and sustainability of trails within the National Forest System, including— (A) ensuring trails a

  • Traindefined inCase Law

    It will be perceived that the air-brake provision deals with running a train, while the other requirements relate to hauling or using a car. In one a train is the unit and in the o

  • The militia; the part of a company trained to martial exercises.

  • The term "train crew" has the meaning given such term as used in chapter II of subtitle B of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations).

  • the term “trained energy manager” means a person who has demonstrated proficiency, or who has completed a course of study in the areas of fundamentals of building energy systems, b

  • The term "trained personnel" means, with respect to an elementary or secondary school, an individual, such as the school nurse— (i) who has been designated by the school

  • “train employee” means an individual engaged in or connected with the movement of a train, including a hostler.

  • The term "trainer" means an individual engaged in the training of covered horses.

  • instruction or teaching designed to impart a specific skill, as opposed to general knowledge"); §2339A(b)(3) ("'expert advice or assistance' means advice or assistance derived from

  • The term “training and technical assistance” means services and support provided to disadvantaged entrepreneurs, such as assistance for the purpose of enhancing business planning,

  • The term “training establishment” has the meaning given such term in section 3452(e) of this title . / The term “training establishment” means any of the following: (1) An establis

  • The term "training facility" means a location that is not a racetrack licensed by a State racing commission that operates primarily to house covered horses and conduct of

  • The term “training leadership position” means, with respect to a specially protected junior member of the armed forces, any of the following: (A) Any drill instructor position or o

  • The term "training program" means the training program operated by the Fund under section 4708 of this title. / The term “training program” means a program that provides

  • Financial assistance whereby the Administration may purchase in whole or in part, and on behalf of such concerns, skills training or upgrading for employees or potential employees

  • The term “training-related injury” means an injury incurred by a member of the Armed Forces while performing authorized training activities in preparation for a combat mission.

  • the terms “chief elected official”, “institution of higher education”, “one-stop center”, “one-stop partner”, “training services”, “workforce development activity”, and “workplace

  • “Training technology” means computer software and related materials which are developed by a Federal agency to train employees of such agency, including but not limited to software

  • A conviction is not justified, where no actual wreck occurred, unless the intention of the defendant to do so is shown; Nowell v. State, 94 Ga. 588, 21 S. E. 591. The indictment ne

  • In old Scotch law. A roll containing the particular dittay taken up upon malefactors, which, with the porteous, is delivered by the justice clerk to the coroner, to the eflfect tha

  • One guilty of treason. See charge of Judge Sprague, District Court of Massachusetts, 1682; Bish. Crimes. The punishment of a traitor is death.

  • In pleading. A technical word, which is essential in an indictment for treason in order to charge the crime, and which cannot be supplied by any other word or any kind of circumloc

  • A loan to a shipper to be repaid only in case of a successful voyage. The lender could charge an extraordinary rate of interest, nauticum fcenus. Holland, Jurispr. 250. See Bottomr

  • Lat In the civll law. Sent across the sen.

  • One who roams about from place to place, begging or living without labor or visible means of support; a vagrant. Many of the states have adopted suitable legislation upon the subje

  • One incorporated in a state other than the state or states where it is intended to transact the business. See 112 N. C. 34, 19 L. R. A. 485, 17 S. E. 10.