promoter
Defined in 4 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Ballentine's (1916), Kinney (1893), Abbott (1879)
United States Code
15 U.S.C. § 6301 — for purposes of this chapter (2 versions over time)
The term “promoter” means the person primarily responsible for organizing, promoting, and producing a professional boxing match. The term “promoter” does not include a hotel, casino, resort, or other commercial establishment hosting or sponsoring a professional boxing match unless—
(A) the hotel, casino, resort, or other commercial establishment is primarily responsible for organizing, promoting, and producing the match; and
(B) there is no other person primarily responsible for organizing, promoting, and producing the match.
39 U.S.C. § 3017 — in this section
the term “promoter” means any person who—
(A) originates and mails any skill contest or sweepstakes, except for any matter described in section 3001(k)(4); or
(B) originates and causes to be mailed any skill contest or sweepstakes, except for any matter described in section 3001(k)(4);
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
In old English law. A common informer; one of the incorporators of a private corporation. originally to make known the proposal of might be able to consider it before it was voted
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
1. In English practice, those persons who, in popular and penal actions, prosecute offenders in their names and the crown's, and are entitled to part of the fines and penalties for their pains, are called promoters. 2. In reference to corporations, those who unite in a scheme for forming a corporation, who join in organizing the plan, in securing the necessary preliminary subscriptions, and in prosecuting the application for a charter, are called the promoters. 3. The term is also applied to a party who puts in motion an ecclesiastical tribunal, for the purpose of correcting the manners of any person who has violated the laws ecclesiastical; and one who takes such a course is said to "promote the office of the judge." See Mozley & W. /also, Office of Judge.