Terms Used In Alabama Code 2-19-81

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

It shall be unlawful in or in connection with any transaction or transactions in commerce subject to the jurisdiction of this state or in any publication in this state for any person to indicate the grade of any cotton which is of or within the grades of the said official cotton standards by any name, description or designation or any system of names, descriptions or designations not used in said standards, but nothing in this section shall prevent the selling of cotton on types or samples.