INTERSTATE

Between two or more states; between places or persons in different states; concerning or affecting two or more states politically or territorially. Interstate commerce. Traffic, intercourse, commercial trading, or the transportation or persons or property between or among the several states of the Union, or from or between points in one state and points in another state; commerce between two states, or between places lying in different states. Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat 104, 6 L. Ed. 23; Wabash, etc. R. Co. v. Illinois, 118 U. S. 557, 7 Sup. Ct. 4, 30 h. Ed. 244; Louisville A N. R. Co. v. Railroad Com’rs (C. C.) 19 Fed. 701. Interstate commerce act. The act of congress of February 4, 1887 (U. S. Comp. St 1901, p. 3154), designed to regulate commerce between the states, and particularly the transportation of persons and property, by carriers, between interstate points, prescribing that charges for such transportation shall be reasonable and just, prohibiting unjust discrimination, rebates, draw-backs, preferences, pooling of freights, etc., requiring schedules of rates to be published, establishing a commission to carry out the measures enacted, and prescribing the powers and duties of such commission and the procedure before it. Interstate commerce commission. A commission created by the interstate commerce act (q. v.) to carry out the measures therein enacted, composed of five persons, appointed by the President, empowered to inquire into the business of the carriers affected, to enforce the law, to receive, invest!4 gate, and determine complaints made to them of any violation of the act, make annua] reports, hold stated sessions, etc. Interstate extradition. The reclamation and surrender, according to due legal proceedings, of a person who, having committed a crime in one of the states of the Union, has fled into another state to evade justice or escape prosecution. Interstate law. That branch of private International iaw which affords rules and principles for the determination of controversies between citizens of different states in respect to mutual rights or obligations, in so far as the same are affected by the diversity of their citizenship or by diversity in the laws or institutions of the several states.