...writ of certiorari. The prior Tariff Act (26 Stat. 131) provided ^r the forfeiture of the goods "if any owner, importer, consignee, agent or other person...merchandise by means of any fraudulent or false invoice." In several cases arising under that act it was held that the language used did not cover the case of...

...writ of certiorari. The prior Tariff Act (26 Stat. 131) provided for the forfeiture of the goods "if any owner, importer, consignee, agent or other person...merchandise by means of any fraudulent or false invoice." In several cases arising under that act it was held that the language used did not cover the case of...

...the United States any imported merchandise by means of any fraudulent or false invoice, declaration, affidavit, letter, paper, or by means of any false...fraudulent practice or appliance whatsoever, or shall make any false statement in the declarations provided for in paragraph F without reasonable cause to...

...States, 146 Fed. 146, 147. Act Cong. June 10, 1S90, C. 407, provides that If any importer or owner shall make or attempt to make any entry of Imported...any fraudulent or false Invoice, affidavit, letter or other means, or shall be guilty of any willful act or omission by means whereof the United States...

...that section that any owner, importer, consignee, etc., who shall, with intent to defraud the revenue, make, or attempt to make, any entry of imported merchandise...any fraudulent or false invoice, affidavit, letter, or paper, or by means of any false statement, written or verbal, or who shall be guilty of any willful...

...the prosecution was had provided : "That if any owner, importer, consignee, agent or other persons shall make or attempt to make any entry of imported merchandise by means of any fraudulent or false invoices," etc. The defendant, who had been indicted for a violation of this statute, was neither the...

...Ct. 64, 58 L. Ed. 267: "The prior Tariff Act (26 Stat 131) provided for the forfeiture of goods 'If any owner, Importer, consignee, agent or other person...merchandise by means of any fraudulent or false Invoice.' In several cases arising under that act It was held that the language used did not cover the case of...

...the United States any imported merchandise by means of any fraudulent or false invoice, declaration, affidavit, letter, paper, or by means of any false...fraudulent practice or appliance whatsoever, or shall make any false statement in the declarations provided for in paragraph F without reasonable cause to...

...section 9, customs administrative act of 1890, prescribing the penalty of forfeiture where anyone shall "attempt to make any entry" of imported merchandise by means of any fraudulent or false invoice. United States v. One Trunk, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, July 19, 1909....

...sufficient to make the true value. Held, that the case was not within the provision relating to any "attempt to make any entry of imported merchandise by means of any fraudulent or false invoice." The illegal intent was abandoned before any "attempt" was made to enter the goods. TL S. v. One Trunk...