original package doctrine
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From 297 U.S. 431 - Whitfield v. Ohio · 1936Most cited · 283 citing opinions
the importation is relieved from the operation of any rule which recognizes a right of sale in the unbroken package without state interference—a right the exercise of which never has been regarded as a fundamental part of the interstate transaction, but only as an incident resulting therefrom