Search results for: “illegal restraint”
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Public Policy
The phrase is one of wide import covering all principles under which the freedom of contract or private dealings is restricted by law for the good of the community . The principle which declares that no one can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to public welfare. […]
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Trade
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Trade Meaning of Trade The word has various shades of meaning but its primary one is that of commerce , the business of selling, with a view to profit , goods which the trader has either manufactured […]
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Condition
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Condition Meaning of Condition state or mode in which a person or thing exists. In real estate law, the term condition denotes any qualification , restriction or limitation annexed to a gift, and […]
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Condition
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Condition Meaning of Condition state or mode in which a person or thing exists. In real estate law, the term condition denotes any qualification , restriction or limitation annexed to a gift, and […]
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Prohibition
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Prohibition Meaning of Prohibition In practise , the term refers to a judicial writ issuing out of a court of superior jurisdiction and directed to an inferior court or quasi -judicial tribunal for the […]
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Grey-area Measures
Grey-area measures in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, grey-area measures is: discriminatory export and import restraints agreed between governments which are usually contrary to the principles governing the multilateral trading system, but which were not clearly illegal under the […]
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Sherman Act
Sherman Act in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, sherman act is: a United States law passed in 1890 with the aim of prohibiting monopolies and restraints in interstate commerce as well as foreign trade. The entries on trade policy are here. It remains the basis of the American system of […]
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Consideration
In contracts consideration consists either in some right , interest , profit or benefit accruing to the one party , or some forbearance , detriment , loss or responsibility given, suffered or undertaken by the other . Something moving from one party to another, either to benefit of […]
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Consideration
In contracts consideration consists either in some right , interest , profit or benefit accruing to the one party , or some forbearance , detriment , loss or responsibility given, suffered or undertaken by the other . Something moving from one party to another, either to benefit of […]
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Coercion
The term involves threats or force or intimidation . People v Waters, 268 N. Y.S. 2d 203, 49 Misc.2d 566.
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Detention
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Detention Meaning of Detention The act of keeping back or withholding, either accidentally or by design, a person or thing. Detention Alternative Definition […]
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Commit
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Commit Meaning of Commit To do a wrongful act; to send a person to prison by virtue of lawful authority for a crime committed by that person. The term also denotes the act of judicial pronouncement of […]
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Duress
Imprisonment , compulsion . It consists in any illegal imprisonment, or legal imprisonment used for an illegal purpose, or threats of bodily or other harm, or other means amounting to or tending to coerce the will of another, and actually inducing him to do an act contrary to his free […]
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Combination
In Criminal Law. A union of men for the purpose of violating the law; a conspiracy (q.v.) In Patent Law, A union of different elements. A patent may be taken out for a new combination of existing machines. 2 Mason (U.S.) 112. …