Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 11 > Chapter 15 - Ancillary and Other Cross-Border Cases

• association: when used in reference to a corporation, shall be deemed to embrace the words "successors and assigns of such company or association" in like manner as if these last-named words, or words of similar import, were expressed. See 1 USC 5
• 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. See 15 USC 142
• county: includes a parish, or any other equivalent subdivision of a State or Territory of the United States. See 1 USC 2
• Department: means the United States Department of Agriculture. See
• domestic: when applied to a corporation or partnership means created or organized in the United States or under the law of the United States or of any State unless, in the case of a partnership, the Secretary provides otherwise by regulations. See
• education: means activities providing information relating to the sheep industry or sheep products to producers, feeders, importers, consumers, and other persons. See
• Federal district court: means any Federal district court, and the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. See 15 USC 142
• foreign: when applied to a corporation or partnership means a corporation or partnership which is not domestic. See
• including: when used in a definition contained in this title shall not be deemed to exclude other things otherwise within the meaning of the term defined. See
• individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
• oath: includes affirmation, and "sworn" includes affirmed. See 1 USC 1
• officer: includes any person authorized by law to perform the duties of the office. See 1 USC 1
• order: means a sheep and wool promotion, research, education, and information order issued under section 7103 of this title. See
• person: as used in this subchapter , includes an officer or employee of a corporation, or a member or employee of a partnership, who as such officer, employee, or member is under a duty to perform the act in respect of which the violation occurs. See 26 USC 6664
• person: includes individual, partnership, corporation, and association. See 15 USC 142
• producer: means any person, other than a feeder, who owns or acquires ownership of sheep. See
• registrar: means the China Trade Act registrar appointed under section 143 of this title. See 15 USC 142
• research: means development projects and studies relating to the production (including the feeding of sheep), processing, distribution, or use of sheep or sheep products to encourage, expand, improve, or make more efficient the marketing of sheep or sheep products. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Agriculture. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Commerce. See 15 USC 142
• State: means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or possession of the United States. See 1 USC 7
• State: means each of the 50 States. See
• State: shall be construed to include the District of Columbia, where such construction is necessary to carry out provisions of this title. See
• stock: includes shares in an association, joint-stock company, or insurance company. See
• taxpayer: means any person subject to any internal revenue tax. See
• transaction: includes a series of transactions. See
• unit: means each State, group of States, or class designation that is represented on the Board. See
• United States: when used in a geographical sense includes only the States and the District of Columbia. See
• vessel: includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water. See 1 USC 3
• writing: includes printing and typewriting and reproductions of visual symbols by photographing, multigraphing, mimeographing, manifolding, or otherwise. See 1 USC 1