603 (1850), a case about the application of a customs statute to a foreign port occupied by U. S. forces.
As Justice Rehnquist noted in the 1977 case United States v. Ramsey, the same Congress that proposed the Bill of Rights passed the United States' first customs statute, giving officials the authority to search "any ship or vessel, in which they shall have reason to suspect any goods, wares or merchandise subject to duty shall be concealed".
It was in accordance with the established rule that, in interpreting customs statutes, commercial terms are to be construed according to the commercial understanding in regard to them.
O times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance!
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Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven --Oh! times, In wheaven --Ohagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once Theaven --Ohon of a countimesn romance!
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'This review demonstrates that the great weight of authority supports the view that courts, which by statute or custom possess a jurisdiction like that of the King's Bench before our Revolution, have the right to change the place of trial, when justice requires it, to a county where an impartial trial may be had.
"Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State..
But this construction makes superfluous § 1343(3)'s reference to constitutional claims, and renders unnecessary the nearly precise repetition in § 1343(3) of the recital in § 1983 specifying suits brought against action 'under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage.' Further, the legislative evolution of § 1343(3) cannot support the construction urged by the dissent.
