Files
Fabio 76b8ec33a7 Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)
Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code
now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun,
verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
legal-us-code default now covers every title.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 10:51:44 -04:00

36 lines
1.3 KiB
Markdown

---
type: "LegalText"
title: "15 U.S.C. § 7"
description: "“Person” or “persons” defined"
jurisdiction: "us"
corpus: "united_states_code"
kind: "code_section"
title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
chapter_number: "1"
chapter_name: "MONOPOLIES AND COMBINATIONS IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE"
section: "7"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 7"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
source: "official"
source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc15@119-100.zip"
source_identifier: "/us/usc/t15/s7"
source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-15/usc15.xml"
source_hash: "f0eb24b113bfe3553900f3c58f3e90abf6fb9f6ef9ededec85deb9d0e55e6197"
raw_snapshot_hash: "6982338d990ef19d6b52bff6825089bdd6d0ee1233d9382673faf533decd5059"
text_hash: "f5bfa417faccf2da4a2ce772ac24f003bee7237ec7fad1bb72a93f3cf3797960"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
confidence: "official"
tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
---
# 15 U.S.C. § 7 - “Person” or “persons” defined
## Text
The word “person”, or “persons”, wherever used in sections 1 to 7 of this title shall be deemed to include corporations and associations existing under or authorized by the laws of either the United States, the laws of any of the Territories, the laws of any State, or the laws of any foreign country.
(July 2, 1890, ch. 647, § 8, 26 Stat. 210.)