200 Chests of Tea

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Whether a particular article were designated by one name or another, in the country of its origin ... was of no importance in the view of the legislature.”
• “Congress must be understood to use [a tariff term] in its known commercial sense.”
• “The true inquiry, therefore, is, whether, in a commercial sense, the tea in question is known, and bought and sold, and used, under the denomination of bohea tea.”
• “The true inquiry, therefore, is, whether, in a commercial sense, the tea in question is known, and bought and sold, and used, under the denomination of bohea tea.”
• “Whether a particular article were [sic] designated by one name or another, in the country of its origin ... was of no importance in the view of the Legislature .... It applied its attention to the description of articles as they derived then-appellations in our own markets.... ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).