regulate

Defined in 6 dictionaries — Case Law, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Abbott (1879)

Definitions from Case Law

From 299 U.S. 334 - Kentucky Whip & Collar Co. v. Illinois Central Railroad · 1937Most cited · 269 citing opinions

The commerce clause confers upon the Congress 'the power to regulate, that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed.' This power 'is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations, other than are prescribed in the constitution.

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

To direct, govern, or restrict. A governmental power to regulate does not include a power to prohibit. 39 N. J. Law, 44; 70 Mich. 396. REGULUS (Lat.)

In Saxon law. A title sometimes given to the earl or comes, in old charters. Spelman. REHABERE FACIAS SEISINAM (Lat. do you cause to regain seisin). When a sheriff in the habere facias seisinam had delivered seisin of more than he ought, this judicial writ lay to make him restore seisin of the excess. Reg. Jud. 13. 51. 54.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Held not synonymous with prohibit. See 61 Mich. 285, 1 Am. St. Rep. 578, 28 N. W. 101.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing princi- - pies or laws. State v. Ream, 16 Neb. 6S3, 21 N. W. 398.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

The power to regulate commerce, vested in congress, is the power to prescribe the rules by which it shall be governed, that is, the conditions upon which it shall be conducted, to determine when it shall be free, and when subject to duties or other exactions. The power also embraces within its control all the instrumentalities by which that commerce may be carried on, and the means by which it may be aided and encouraged. Gloucester Ferry Co. v. Pennsylvania, 114 U. S. 196, 5 Sup. Ct. 826, 29 In Ed. 158. And see Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat 227, 6 In Ed. 23; Gilman v. Phlladelphia, 3 Wall. 724, 18 In Ed. 96; Welton v. Missouri, 91 U. S. 279, 23 In Ed. 347; Leisy v. Hardin, 135 U. S. 100, 10 Sup. Ct. 681, 34 In Ed. 128; Kavanaugh v. Southern R. Co., 120 Ga. 62, 47 S. E526.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

The power to regulate ferries, conferred upon the common council of a city, was held not to include the power to prohibit them without a license being first obtained for them. Duckwall v. City of New Albany, 25 Ind. 283. An act to regulate the sale of liquor may embrace entire prohibition of sales to a certain class of persons, such as minors. Williams V. State, 48 Ind. 306. Under a statute giving power to cities to regulate sales by auctioneers and transient merchants, a city has no power to pass an ordinance making a resident merchant employed in selling goods at retail pay a tax of a certain per cent of the amount of sales of a portion of his merchandise, which he employs an auctioneer to sell. Oskaloosa B. Tullis, 25 Iowa, 440. Regulate, in the provision of the St. Louis city charter of 1870, permitting an ordinance "to regulate bawdy-houses," certainly implies the continued existence of the matter to be regulated. State v. Clarke, 54 Mo. 17. A charter power "to erect, repair, and regulate public wharves and docks," imports a power to alter by extension or diminution. City of Hannibal w. Winchell, 54 Mo. 172.