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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 1 — Monopolies and Combinations in Restraint of Trade

§ 6. Forfeiture of property in transit

Statutory text

Any property owned under any contract or by any combination, or pursuant to any conspiracy (and being the subject thereof) mentioned in section 1 of this title, and being in the course of transportation from one State to another, or to a foreign country, shall be forfeited to the United States, and may be seized and condemned by like proceedings as those provided by law for the forfeiture, seizure, and condemnation of property imported into the United States contrary to law.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 51–647 § 6 · 26 Stat. 209

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 6

    (July 2, 1890, ch. 647, § 6, 26 Stat. 210.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (July 2, 1890, ch. 647, § 6, 26 Stat. 210.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 6. Any property owned under any contract or by any combination, or pursuant to any conspiracy (and being the subject Ante, p. 209. thereof) mentioned in section one of this act, and being in the course of transportation from one State to another, or to a foreign country, Forfeiture, seizure, and condemnation. shall be forfeited to the United States, and may be seized and condemned by like proceedings as those provided by law for the forfeiture, seizure, and condemnation of property imported into the United States contrary to law.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(July 2, 1890, ch. 647, § 6, 26 Stat. 210.)

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