Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 15 > Chapter 29 - Manufacture, Transportation, or Distribution of Switchblade Knives

• 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
• county: includes a parish, or any other equivalent subdivision of a State or Territory of the United States. See 1 USC 2
• individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
• interstate commerce: means commerce between any State, Territory, possession of the United States, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof. See 15 USC 1241
• officer: includes any person authorized by law to perform the duties of the office. See 1 USC 1
• 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
• switchblade knife: means any knife having a blade which opens automatically&mdash. See 15 USC 1241
• writing: includes printing and typewriting and reproductions of visual symbols by photographing, multigraphing, mimeographing, manifolding, or otherwise. See 1 USC 1