commerce

The exchange of goods, productions, or property of any kind; the buying, selling, and exchanging of articles. Anderson v. Humble Oil and Refining Co., 226 Ga. 252, 174 S.E.2d 415, 417.

The transportation of persons and property by land, water and air. Union Pacific R. Co. v. State Tax Commissioner, 19 Utah 2d 236, 429 P.2d 983, 984.

Intercourse by way of trade and traffic between different peoples or states and the citizens or inhabitants thereof, including not only the purchase, sale, and exchange of commodities, but also the instrumentalities and agencies by which it is promoted and the means and appliances by which it is carried on, and transportation of persons as well as of goods, both by land and sea. Brennan v. Titusville, 153 U.S. 289, 14 S.Ct. 829, 38 L.Ed. 719; Railroad Co. v. Fuller, 84 U.S. (17 Wall.) 568, 21 L.Ed. 710; Hoke v. United States, 227 U.S. 308, 33 S.Ct. 281, 57 L.Ed. 523.

Also interchange of ideas, sentiments, etc., as between man and man.

The term "commerce" means trade, traffic, commerce, transportation, or communication among the several States, or between the District of Columbia or any Territory of the United States and any State or other Territory, or between any foreign country and any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or within the District of Columbia or any Territory, or between points in the same State but through any other State or any Territory or the District of Columbia or any foreign country. National Labor Relations Act, No. 2. For purposes of Fair Labor Standards Act, "commerce" means trade, commerce, transportation, transmission, or communication among several states or between any state and any place outside thereof. Wirtz v. B. B. Saxon Co., C.A.Fla., 365 F.2d 457, 460.

See also affecting commerce

- chamber of commerce

- interstate and foreign commerce

- interstate commerce

- Interstate Commerce Act

- Interstate Commerce Commission

- intrastate commerce

@ commerce among the states

Transportation and transacting business from one state to another, and also all component parts of such intercourse. Dahnke-Walker Milling Co. v. Bondurant, 257 U.S. 282, 42 S.Ct. 106, 108, 66 L.Ed. 239.

See interstate commerce

@ commerce with foreign nations

Commerce between citizens of the United States and citizens or subject governments; commerce which, either immediately or at some stage of its progress, is extraterritorial. U. S. v. Holliday, 70 U.S. 407, 3 Wall. 407, 18 L.Ed. 182; Veazie v. Moor, 55 U.S: 568, 14 How. 568, 14 L.Ed. 545; Lord v. Steamship Co., 102 U.S. 541, 26 L.Ed. 224. The same as foreign commerce, below.

Power of Congress to regulate "commerce with foreign nations" comprehends every species of commercial intercourse. U.S. C.A.Const. Art. I, No. 8, cl. 3. Board of Trustees of University of Illinois v. U. S., Gust. & Pat.App., 289 U.S. 48, 53 S.Ct. 509, 77 L.Ed. 1025

@ commerce with Indian tribes

Commerce with individuals belonging to such tribes, in the nature of buying, selling, and exchanging commodities, without reference to the locality where carried on, though it be within the limits of a state. U. S. v. Holliday, 3 Wall. 407, 18 L.Ed. 182.

@ domestic commerce

Commerce carried on wholly within the limits of the United States, as distinguished from foreign commerce. Also, commerce carried on within the limits of a single state, as distinguished from interstate commerce.

@ foreign commerce

Commerce or trade between the United States and foreign countries. The term is sometimes applied to commerce between ports of two sister states not lying on the same coast, e.g., New York and San Francisco.

+ foreign commerce

Trade between persons in the United States and those in a foreign country.

See also commerce

- foreign trade

@ internal commerce

Such as is carried on between individuals within the same state, or between different parts of the same state. Now more commonly called "intrastate commerce".

@ international commerce

Commerce between states or nations entirely foreign to each other.

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- interstate commerce

@ intrastate commerce

Such as is begun, carried on, and completed wholly within the limits of a single state. Contrasted with "interstate commerce" (q.v.)

+ intrastate commerce

Commerce within a state, as opposed to commerce between states (i.e. interstate).

See also balancing of interests

- commerce

Compare interstate commerce

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