visitorial powers
Defined in 1 dictionary — Case Law
Definitions from Case Law
United States Supreme Court
A custodian, by assuming the duties of his office, undertakes the obligation to produce the books of which he is custodian in response to a rightful exercise of the State's visitorial powers. But he cannot lawfully be compelled, in the absence of a grant of adequate immunity from prosecution, to condemn himself by his own oral testimony.
Defined by the Supreme Court in - Curcio v. United States, 354 U.S. 118 (1957).