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OCR: 34 "where Congress borrows terms of art in which uIt accumulated the legal tradition and meaning of centuries practice presum ably knows and adopts the cluster of ideas that were attached each bor- pamor In the body learning from which was taken and the meaning its use will convey the judicial mind unless otherwise instructed. 11 such case absence of cont rary direction may be taken as satisf faction with widely accepted definitions, you denat rture from them ra. at 1885 Morissetfe V United States, 342 U.s. 246 263 (1952) Evans this Court explicitly applied this rule to the terns of the Hobbs Act: "our constructi ion of the statuto is informed common-law tradition from which the term att awn and understood 1889 This "common- law tradition" demonstrates the 1T petitioncrs attcmpt to obliter ...