---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 71"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "71"
heading: "“Person” defined"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/71"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Federal Trade Commission; Promotion of Export Trade and Prevention of Unfair Methods of Competition"
  - "Subchapter VI — Prevention of Unfair Methods of Competition"
---

# §71. “Person” defined


When used in this subchapter the term “[person](/usc/15/70.md?p=a)” includes partnerships, corporations, and associations.


## Source credit

(Sept. 8, 1916, ch. 463, title VIII, § 800, 39 Stat. 798.)