 | Lewis Cass - Harbors - 1856 - 96 pages
...been added to the word "commerce" — as if the general power were to regulate navigation; and that the "mind can scarcely conceive a system for regulating...commerce between nations, which shall exclude all idea concerning navigation," &c. And this construction has been fortified by the language of the Constitution... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 718 pages
...Judge, presiding. GEORGE A. BARR, State's Attorney, (GARNSEY, WOOD & LENNON, of counsel,) for appellant: Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 189; Groves v. Slaughter, 15 Pet. 511; Broien v. Maryland, 12 Wheat. 436.... | |
 | Boston Board of Trade - Boston (Mass.) - 1866 - 218 pages
...sense. In the case of Gibbons and Ogden, the Supreme Court of the United States said, that " commerce is traffic ; but it is something more. It is intercourse....describes the commercial intercourse between nations in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse." And again... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Constitutional law - 1868 - 588 pages
...intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its branches, and is l 9 Wheaton's R. 189. regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that...navigation, which shall be silent on the admission of vessels of one nation into the ports of the other, and be confined to the prescribing rules for the... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Constitutional law - 1868 - 570 pages
...navigation. This would restrict a general term applicable to many objects, to one of its significations. Commerce undoubtedly is traffic ; but it is something...nations and parts of nations in all its branches, and is l 9 Wheaton's R. 189. regulated by prescribing rules for cawying on that intercourse. The mind can... | |
 | Law - 1892 - 554 pages
...Brown v. Maryland, 12 Wheat. 448. " Commerce undoubtedly is traffic," said Chief Justice Marshall, " but it is something more ; it is intercourse. it describes...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse." Unquestionably fermented, distilled or other intoxicating liqnors or liquids are subjects of commercial... | |
 | Law - 1904 - 408 pages
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 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 738 pages
...signification wide enough to include this subject. In Qibbons v. Ogden* Chief Justice Marshall said, " Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something...nations, and parts of nations in all its branches." The contract of insurance is inseparable from commerce in modern times. It has become its indispensable... | |
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Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more, — it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. 
