18 U.S.C. § 2311

Definitions

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As used in this chapter:

“Aircraft” means any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used, or designed for navigation of or for flight in the air;

“Cattle” means one or more bulls, steers, oxen, cows, heifers, or calves, or the carcass or carcasses thereof;

“Livestock” means any domestic animals raised for home use, consumption, or profit, such as horses, pigs, llamas, goats, fowl, sheep, buffalo, and cattle, or the carcasses thereof;

“Money” means the legal tender of the United States or of any foreign country, or any counterfeit thereof;

“Motor vehicle” includes an automobile, automobile truck, automobile wagon, motorcycle, or any other self-propelled vehicle designed for running on land but not on rails;

“Securities” includes any note, stock certificate, bond, debenture, check, draft, warrant, traveler’s check, letter of credit, warehouse receipt, negotiable bill of lading, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in any profit-sharing agreement, collateral-trust certificate, preorganization certificate or subscription, transferable share, investment contract, voting-trust certificate; valid or blank motor vehicle title; certificate of interest in property, tangible or intangible; instrument or document or writing evidencing ownership of goods, wares, and merchandise, or transferring or assigning any right, title, or interest in or to goods, wares, and merchandise; or, in general, any instrument commonly known as a “security”, or any certificate of interest or participation in, temporary or interim certificate for, receipt for, warrant, or right to subscribe to or purchase any of the foregoing, or any forged, counterfeited, or spurious representation of any of the foregoing;

“Tax stamp” includes any tax stamp, tax token, tax meter imprint, or any other form of evidence of an obligation running to a State, or evidence of the discharge thereof;

“Value” means the face, par, or market value, whichever is the greatest, and the aggregate value of all goods, wares, and merchandise, securities, and money referred to in a single indictment shall constitute the value thereof.

“Vessel” means any watercraft or other contrivance used or designed for transportation or navigation on, under, or immediately above, water.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 223 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1949–2022 · leading case: United States v. William J. Johnson

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United States v. William J. Johnson (1983) ca5 · cites it 4× “eral-trust certificate, preorganization certificate or subscription, transferable share, investment contract, voting-trust certificate; certificate of interest in property, tangible or intangible; instrument or document or writing evidencing ownership of goods, wares, and…”

United States v. William J. Johnson (1983) ca5 · cites it 8× “” 18 U.S.C. § 2311 . The wording of the certificate falls literally into the statutory definition by purporting to “assign” gold.”

United States v. Robert Ruhe (1999) ca4 · cites it 3× “” 18 U.S.C.A. § 2311 (West 1970) (emphasis added).”

Schaffer v. United States (1960) scotus · cites it 4× “" 18 U. S. C. § 2311 provides so far as material here: " `Value' means the face, par, or market value, whichever is the greatest, and the aggregate value of all goods, wares, and merchandise, securities, and money referred to in a single indictment shall constitute the value…”

Pollinger v. United States (2008) dcd · cites it 4× “§ 7214 and 18 U.S.C. § 2311 ; various provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (“Code”); and 28 U.”

Williams v. United States (1982) scotus · cites it 2× “, 18 U. S. C. § 2311 . [4] The Court's fears that holding a check-kiting scheme to be covered by § 1014 would entail broad implications, see ante, at 286-287, are misguided.”

United States v. John Robert Perry (1981) ca5 · cites it 5× “§ 2314 (transporting goods “of the value of $5,000 or more, knowing the same to have been stolen”), is furnished by the definition of 18 U.S.C. § 2311 : “Value” means the face, par, or market value, whichever is the greatest, and the aggregate value of all goods, wares, and…”

United States v. Albert C. Drebin, Budget Films, Inc., Lawrence S. Fine and Bruce M. Venezia (1977) ca9 · cites it 3× “Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property Appellants argue that the court erred in its instruction defining “value” under 18 U.S.C. § 2311 . The court instructed the jury that: The Government must establish beyond a reasonable doubt in Counts 2 through 4 that the value of the…”

United States v. Raymond W. Zwego, Jr. (1981) ca10 · cites it 4× “§ 1014 , and interstate transportation of a falsely made and forged security in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2311 and 2314. Appellant telephoned the Westgate State Bank located in Kansas City, Kansas and placed two applications for automobile loans on behalf of two “customers,” Mr.”

United States v. Batti (2011) ca6 · cites it 2× “Examination of the definition of “value” in 18 U.S.C. § 2311 reveals that the market value of the stolen good constitutes the primary relevant benchmark for the determination of the value of stolen “goods, wares, merchandise, securities or money” in § 2314.”

People v. Figueroa (1986) cal · cites it 2× “§ 77b(1); 18 U.S.C. § 2311 ) served as the model for the definition in Corporations Code section 25019 ( ante, fn.”

United States v. Harold Wexler, United States of America v. Alan Angrist (1980) ca2 · cites it 4× “The Equipment Lease — Security Issue Despite a concession at trial 3 that this was not an issue, both defendants strenuously argue that an equipment lease is not a “security” within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 2311 . The National Stolen Property Act, 18 U.”

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