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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 1 — Monopolies and Combinations in Restraint of Trade

§ 7. “Person” or “persons” defined

Statutory text

The word “person”, or “persons”, wherever used in sections 1 to 7 of this title shall be deemed to include corporations and associations existing under or authorized by the laws of either the United States, the laws of any of the Territories, the laws of any State, or the laws of any foreign country.

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 § 8 · 26 Stat. 209

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 7

    (July 2, 1890, ch. 647, § 8, 26 Stat. 210.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (July 2, 1890, ch. 647, § 8, 26 Stat. 210.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 8. That the word “person,” or “persons,” wherever used in this act shall be deemed to include corporations and associations existing under or authorized by the laws of either the United States, the laws of any of the Territories, the laws of any State, or the laws of any foreign country.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(July 2, 1890, ch. 647, § 8, 26 Stat. 210.)

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