In rem jurisdiction ("power about or against 'the thing'") is a legal term describing the power a court may exercise over property (either real or personal) or a "status" against a person over whom the court does not have in personam jurisdiction. Jurisdiction in rem assumes the property or status is the PRIMARY OBJECT of the action...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_rem_jurisdiction
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or COMPOSITION OF MATTER, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
(July 19, 1952, ch. 950, 66 Stat. 797.)
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/101
United States v. One Book Called Ulysses, 5 F. Supp. 182 (S.D.N.Y. 1933), is a decision by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in a case dealing with freedom of expression. At issue was whether James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses was obscene.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._One_Book_Called_Ulysses#cite_note-Websters-6
Memorial - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/memorial
Tariff Act 1930 - (a)Prohibition of importation
"All persons are prohibited from importing into the United States from any foreign country any book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, or drawing containing any matter advocating or urging treason or insurrection against the United States, or forcible resistance to any law of the United States, or containing any threat to take the life of or inflict bodily harm upon any person in the United States, or any obscene book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, drawing, or other representation, figure, or image on or of paper or other material, or any cast, instrument, or other article which is obscene or immoral, or any drug or medicine or any article whatever for causing unlawful abortion... "
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/19/1305
In rem jurisdiction ("power about or against 'the thing'") is a legal term describing the power a court may exercise over property (either real or personal) or a "status" against a person over whom the court does not have in personam jurisdiction. Jurisdiction in rem assumes the property or status is the PRIMARY OBJECT of the action...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_rem_jurisdiction
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or COMPOSITION OF MATTER, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
(July 19, 1952, ch. 950, 66 Stat. 797.)
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/101
United States v. One Book Called Ulysses, 5 F. Supp. 182 (S.D.N.Y. 1933), is a decision by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in a case dealing with freedom of expression. At issue was whether James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses was obscene.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._One_Book_Called_Ulysses#cite_note-Websters-6
Memorial - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/memorial
Tariff Act 1930 - (a)Prohibition of importation
"All persons are prohibited from importing into the United States from any foreign country any book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, or drawing containing any matter advocating or urging treason or insurrection against the United States, or forcible resistance to any law of the United States, or containing any threat to take the life of or inflict bodily harm upon any person in the United States, or any obscene book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, drawing, or other representation, figure, or image on or of paper or other material, or any cast, instrument, or other article which is obscene or immoral, or any drug or medicine or any article whatever for causing unlawful abortion... "
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/19/1305