---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 7"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "7"
heading: "“Person” or “persons” defined"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/7"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Monopolies and Combinations in Restraint of Trade"
---

# §7. “Person” or “persons” defined


The word “[person](/usc/15/78m.md?p=h-8-E)”, or “[persons](/usc/15/78m.md?p=h-8-E)”, wherever used in [sections 1 to 7](/usc/15/1..7.md) of this title shall be deemed to include corporations and [associations](/usc/15/657h.md?p=a-2) existing under or authorized by the laws of either the United States, the laws of any of the Territories, the laws of any [State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2), or the laws of any foreign country.


## Source credit

(July 2, 1890, ch. 647, § 8, 26 Stat. 210.)