A Treatise on the Law of Monopolies and Industrial Trusts: As Administered in England and in the United States of America

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Central Law Journal Company, 1898 - 760 pages

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Contents

Sustained by popular sentiment
27
The American doctrine
28
The adverse contention
31
Labor organizations
34
Popular sentiment and public policy
35
CHAPTER I
37
Public policy defined
42
The effect of a change
47
Covenants inconsistent with morality
49
Services in influencing legislation
54
The ground of the rule
58
Where such services may be employed
62
Services in influencing public officials
64
For services in procuring appointments to public offices
68
The subject continued
71
For withdrawal of opposing candidates
72
For services in procuring a pardon
75
For services which are in violation of public duty
77
For services in opposing a public enterprise
80
The subject continued
82
Stipulations against liability
85
The rule in New York
91
Contracts in contravention of law
93
For influencing the administration of justice
95
For changing the officers of corporations
99
For renouncing an executorship
101
For assignment of salary not yet due
104
CHAPTER II
107
The general rule
110
The rule in England
115
Partial distinguished from general restraint
116
Question of consideration
121
Limitations of time
123
The subject continued
126
Touching territorial limitations
128
The subject continued
131
Territorial limits determined
139
Validity of contracts in restraint of trade as affected by their reasonableness
142
Divisibility of illegal contracts
147
The subject continued
151
Limitations in conveyances
153
The subject continued
157
The grantee restrained by the terms of the conveyance
159
Contracts relating to trade secrets
160
Restraint of trade by patents
165
Where contracts relating to patents are not upheld
169
Restraint in the sale of a trademark
171
Restraint in publication contract
174
CHAPTER III
179
Contract for the sale of a physicians practice
183
The subject continued
185
The rule as applied to attorneys
187
The rule as applied to dentists
190
Application of the rule to the profession of teaching
193
Restraint upon the services of artists and actors
194
As applied to trades and other occupations
197
In its application to traveling salesmen
202
Constraint of trade construed as a limited partnership
204
CHAPTER IV
206
Contracts relating to a particular article
209
Contracts under which the grantor retains an interest in the business
210
Contracts for the sale of a good will
212
The subject continued
215
Further application of the rule
220
Agreement not to buy or sell
221
Contract to maintain prices
223
Statutory regulations
224
CHAPTER V
227
Conspiracy defined
228
The rule in England
231
Conspiracy by a corporation
235
Combination to monopolize a particular branch of busi ness
237
Combinations for regulating prices
242
Conspiracies under the federal antitrust act
246
Combination to prevent competition at a judicial sale
248
Combination to destroy competition
252
Conspiracy for severing the relation of a minister to his congregation
255
Indictment for conspiracy
256
Statutory regulations
259
CHAPTER VI
262
The corner defined
264
The nature of an option
267
Modification of the common law doctrine
269
The creation of a corner in necessaries
272
Where contracts for future delivery are justifiable
277
Rights and liabilities of third parties
280
Statutory prohibitions
284
CHAPTER VII
286
The strike and the lockout
289
The strike as a conspiracy
291
The subject continued
295
The relation of trades unions to a receiver
338
Interference with transportation of the mails
340
Contracts between employers and trades unions
344
Remedy by civil action
348
Remedy by injunction
352
Statutory regulations
356
CHAPTER VIII
359
Limitation of exclusive privilege
364
Statutory regulations
366
The subject continued
371
How regarded in equity
375
Monopoly in street railways
376
Grant of exclusive gas privilege
381
Exclusive privilege for supplying water
386
The subject continued
390
Exclusive privilege of erecting a toll bridge or of estab lishing a ferry
392
The subject continued
395
Power to impose a ferry license
398
For removal of garbage
400
Municipal grant of a market franchise
404
The subject continued
406
Legislative and business powers distinguished
410
CHAPTER IX
412
Power to regulate the business of a railroad company
419
Power not lost by nonuser
424
Power to act through a commission
425
Power to assess damages
429
Power to regulate public warehouses and warehousing
431
Effect of statutory regulations
435
Power to regulate the operations of telegraph companies
437
When subject to congressional control
440
Application of the rule to the telephone
444
Power to regulate in case of patented property
449
Application of the rule to the baking business
451
Application of the rule to the laundry business
453
Immunity from governmental control
456
A business juris publici distinguished from a business juris privati
458
CHAPTER X
464
Combinations for the purpose of suppressing competition
469
The subject continued
473
Purchase of competing lines
476
Lease of competing lines
480
Consolidation of parallel lines
485
The subject continued
490
The rule in case of traffic arrangement
492
Admission to depot grounds
495
General powers of railway corporations
499
CHAPTER XII
543
The subject continued
580
The subject continued
589
Rights of parties under trust combinations
595
California cattle trust
606
Illinois act prohibiting pools trusts and combines
614
Indiana antitrust act
616
Iowa antipool and trust law
618
Kansas law prohibiting trusts
622
Kentucky law prohibiting pools trusts and conspiracies
626
Louisiana law for the prohibition of trusts and combina tions in restraint of trade
628
Maine antitrust law
631
Michigan antitrust act
633
Minnesota law to prohibit pools and trusts
635
Mississippi law prohibiting trusts and combines
636
Missouri antitrust act
639
Montana statute against monopolies and trusts
646
Nebraska statute against trusts and conspiracies against trade and business
648
New Mexico law declaring trust combinations illegal
653
New York law to prevent monopolies
654
North Carolina law for the prohibition of trusts
657
North Dakota law declaring certain trusts and combina tions unlawful
659
Oklahoma law to prevent combinations in restraint of trade
660
South Carolina prohibition of trusts and combinations
662
South Dakota antitrust law
664
Tennessee law to prohibit conspiracies and trusts
666
Texas law for the suppression of trusts and the promo tion of true competition
670
Utah law prohibiting pools and trusts
674
Washington law forbidding trusts and monopolies
677
Wisconsin statute prohibiting trusts and combinations in restraint of trade
678
CHAPTER XIV
680
The subject continued
684
Ground of proceedings against monopolies and indus trial combinations
688
What courts have jurisdiction
691
Who may file an information
697
Pleadings and averments
701
Judgment under proceedings in quo warranto
705
Application of the rule to illegal combinations
708
Remedy by injunction
709
The subject continued
713
Punishment for contempt
714
Introductory
717
CHAPTER XVI
726
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Page 602 - The several circuit courts of the United States are hereby invested with jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of this act ; and it shall be the duty of the several district attorneys of the United States, in their respective districts, under the direction of the attorney-general, to institute proceedings in equity to prevent and restrain such violations.
Page 40 - It must not be forgotten that you are not to extend arbitrarily those rules which say that a given contract is void as being against public policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily shall be held sacred and shall be enforced by Courts of justice.
Page 144 - We do not see how a better test can be applied to the question whether reasonable or not, than by considering whether the restraint is such only as to afford a fair protection to the interests of the party in favor of whom it is given, and not so large as to interfere with the interests of the public.
Page 413 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created. He may withdraw his grant by discontinuing the use; but, so long as he maintains the use, he...
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Page 713 - Any person who shall be injured in his business or property by any other person or corporation by reason of anything forbidden or declared to be unlawful by this act may sue therefor in any Circuit Court of the United States in the district in which the defendant resides or is found, without respect to the amount in controversy, and shall recover threefold the damages by him sustained, and the costs of suit, including a reasonable attorney's fee. Sec. 8. That the word "person
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Page 272 - For no country ever takes notice of the revenue laws of another. " <The objection, that a contract is immoral or illegal as between plaintiff and defendant, sounds at all times very ill in the mouth of the defendant. It is not for his sake, however, that the objection is ever allowed; but it is founded in general principles of policy, which the defendant has the advantage of, contrary to the real justice, as between him and the plaintiff, by accident, if I may so say. The principle of public policy...

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