To Prevent the Sale of Cotton and Grain in Future Markets: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Sixty-ninth Congress, First Session, on S. 454 ... Committee Report and Minority Report on Same, and Appendices ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1926 - 390 sider |
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Side 131 - Issuing a policy of insurance is not a transaction of commerce. The policies are simple contracts of indemnity against loss by fire, entered into l>ctween the corporations and the assured, for a consideration paid by the latter. These contracts are not articles of commerce in any proper meaning of the word. They are not subjects of trade and barter offered in the market as something having an existence and value independent of the parties to them.
Side 205 - ... any of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and...
Side 5 - ... producing its books and papers, but no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may testify or produce evidence...
Side 5 - Any person violating any provision of this section may be tried and punished, either in the district in which the unlawful matter or publication was mailed or to which it was carried by mail for delivery, according to the direction thereon, or in which it was caused to be delivered by mail to the person to whom it was addressed.
Side 205 - The words and phrases used in this Act and in proceedings pursuant hereto shall, unless. the same be inconsistent with the context, be construed as follows: (1) " A person against whom a petition has been filed...
Side 6 - Whoever shall knowingly deposit, or cause to be deposited for mailing or delivery, anything declared by this section to be nonmailable...
Side 135 - ... (b) When the governing board thereof provides for the making and filing by the board or any member thereof, as the Secretary of Agriculture may direct, of reports in accordance with the rules and regulations, and in such manner and form and at such times as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, showing the details and terms of all transactions entered into by the board, or the members thereof, either in cash transactions...
Side 10 - contract market," as hereinafter provided, and if such contract is evidenced by a record in writing which shows the date, the parties to such contract and their addresses, the property covered and its price, and the terms of delivery...
Side 171 - Specify the basis grade for the cotton involved in the contract, which shall be one of the grades for which standards are established by the Secretary of Agriculture...
Side 172 - In relation to things not yet in existence, or not yet belonging to the vendor, the law considers them as divided into two classes, one of which may be sold, while the other can only be the subject of an agreement to sell, of an executory contract. Things not yet existing which may be sold are those which are said to have a potential existence, that is, things which are the natural product or expected increase of something already belonging to the vendor. A man may sell the crop of hay to be grown...