Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 26 > Subtitle E > Chapter 51 > Subchapter E > Part II - Regulation of Traffic in Containers of Distilled Spirits

• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• 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
• employee: shall include a full-time life insurance salesman who is considered an employee for the purpose of chapter 21. See 26 USC 7701
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• officer: includes any person authorized by law to perform the duties of the office. See 1 USC 1
• person: shall be construed to mean and include an individual, a trust, estate, partnership, association, company or corporation. See 26 USC 7701
• registrar: means the China Trade Act registrar appointed under section 143 of this title. See 15 USC 142
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Commerce. See 15 USC 142
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate. See 26 USC 7701
• 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