Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 4 — China Trade
§ 142. Definitions
Statutory text
When used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates—
The term “person” includes individual, partnership, corporation, and association;
The term “China” means (1) China including Manchuria, Tibet, Mongolia, and any territory leased by China to any foreign government, (2) the Crown Colony of Hong Kong, and (3) the Province of Macao;
The terms “China Trade Act corporation” and “corporation” mean a corporation chartered under the provisions of this chapter;
The term “Federal district court” means any Federal district court, and the United States District Court for the District of Columbia;
The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Commerce; and
The term “registrar” means the China Trade Act registrar appointed under section 143 of this title.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
China Trade Act, 1922
Pub. L. 67–346 § 2 · 42 Stat. 849
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 142
Sept. 19, 1922, ch. 346, § 2, 42 Stat. 849
Source evidence
Code source credit
Sept. 19, 1922, ch. 346, § 2, 42 Stat. 849Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. definitions. When used in this Act, unless the context otherwise indicates,— Terms construed. (a) The term “person” includes individual, partnership, corporation, “Person.” and association; (b) The term “China” means (1) China including Manchuria, “China.” Thibet, Mongolia, and any territory leased by China to any foreign government, (2) the Crown Colony of Hongkong, and (3) the Province of Macao; (c) The terms “China Trade Act corporation” and “corporation” mean a corporation chartered under the provisions of this Act; (d) The term “federal district “Federal district court.” court” means any federal district court, the United States Court for China, and the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; (e) The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Commerce; and (f) The term “registrar” means the China Trade Act registrar appointed under section 3.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Words “the United States Court for China” deleted from definition of “Federal district court” under the authority of Treaty between the United States and the Republic of China, 57 Stat. 767, which was signed in Washington, , ratified by the United States Senate on , ratified by the President on , and ratified by the Republic of China on , by which the United States relinquished all extraterritorial jurisdiction and rights in China.
Congress by private act Dec. 22, 1944, ch. 691, 58 Stat. 1086, provided for the relief of certain former employees of the United States Court for China for the period of to , on which date the Court ceased to exist.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Act , eff. , as amended by act , substituted “United States District Court for the District of Columbia” for “district court of the United States for the District of Columbia”.
Act , substituted “district court of the United States for the District of Columbia” for “Supreme Court of the District of Columbia”.
Credits
1922–1949 · 5 acts
- 1922Sept. 19, 1922, ch. 346, § 2, 42 Stat. 849
- 1936June 25, 1936, ch. 804, 49 Stat. 1921
- 1943Treaty , 57 Stat. 767
- 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 32(a), 62 Stat. 991
- 1949May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 127, 63 Stat. 107.
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(Sept. 19, 1922, ch. 346, § 2, 42 Stat. 849; June 25, 1936, ch. 804, 49 Stat. 1921; Treaty , 57 Stat. 767; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 32(a), 62 Stat. 991; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 127, 63 Stat. 107.)