Cunard SS Co. v. Mellon, 262 U.S. 100 (1923) (No. 659-662)
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Cunard SS Co. v. Mellon, 262 U.S. 100 (1923) (No. 659-662)
Author: Supreme Court of the United States
Year: 1923
Case name: Cunard SS Co. v. Mellon Opinion filed: 1923-04-30 Docket No.: 659-662 Related Docket Nos.: • 666-670 Citations: • 262 U.S. 100 • 43 S. Ct. 504 • 67 L. Ed. 894 • 1923 U.S. LEXIS 2621 Case holding summaries: • holding that the Eighteenth Amendment and National Prohibition Act’s restriction on the sale and transport of liquors within “the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof” does not include U.S.-registered ships outside territorial waters • holding that the National Prohibition Act did not apply to “merchant ships when outside the waters of the United States” • importation of liquor under the National Prohibition Act. • "[T]he territory subject to [United States] jurisdiction includes ... the sea extending from the coast line outward a marine league, or three geographic miles." • holding that the general terms of the National Prohibition Act apply to foreign-flag ships in United States waters because "[t]here is in the act no provision making it [in]applicable" to such ships • importation "consists in bringing an article into a country from the outside.... Entry through a custom house is not of the essence of the act." • “Importation . . . c