18 U.S.C. § 335
Circulation of obligations of expired corporations
Whoever, being a director, officer, or agent of a corporation created by Act of Congress, the charter of which has expired, or trustee thereof, or an agent of such trustee, or a person having in his possession or under his control the property of such corporation for the purpose of paying or redeeming its notes and obligations, knowingly issues, reissues, or utters as money, or in any other way knowingly puts in circulation any bill, note, check, draft, or other security purporting to have been made by any such corporation, or by any officer thereof, or purporting to have been made under authority derived therefrom, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6
cases, 1930–1939 · leading case: Clark v. Associated Retail Credit Men of Washington
Clark v. Associated Retail Credit Men of Washington (1939)
“18 18 U.S.C.A. § 335 . United States v. Brown, C.”
Scaffidi v. United States (1930)
“The defendant was convicted under section 215 of the Criminal Code (18 USCA § 335) of using the mails to defraud.”
American Civil Liberties Union, Inc. v. Kiely (1930)
“” The Postmaster General and the postmaster relied on section 212 of the United States Criminal Code (18 USCA § 335)-which declares: “All matter otherwise mailable by law, upon the envelope or outside cover or wrapper of which or any * * * epithets, terms, or language of * * *…”
Shoemaker v. Burke (1937)
“The appellant undertook to mail this letter and similar letters but was denied mailing privileges by force of the Postmaster General’s determination that the letters were subject to the prohibition of the Act approved June 18, 1888, § 2, as amended, title 18 U.S.C.A. § 335 ,…”
Hardy v. Goldman (1936)
“I am satisfied, therefore, that the sticker is “calculated by the terms or manner -of style or display and obviously intended to reflect injuriously upon the character or conduct of another”; at least I cannot say that the Postmaster General was not fairly justified in arriving…”
United States v. Limehouse (1931)
“Code, title 18, § 335 [18 USCA § 335]), in reference to matter upon postal cards or upon envelopes or outside covers or wrappers, Congress has made it dear that, not only matters of an “obscene, lewd, or lascivious” nature are embraced within the statute, but also “libellous,…”
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