Annual Report of the Attorney General of the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 - Justice, Administration of |
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28-hour tion nat according to census Acquittals Admiralty Anti Appealed to circuit Appealed to Supreme ber tres Cancella census of 1910 cents circuit court Civil clerk Commenced during fiscal Commerce Court Convictions court of appeals demurrer Dismissed or discontinued favor of U. S. February 22 feiting laws fiscal year 1912 Food and drugs gration Hours of Forfeiture Immi imposed indictment returned Internal Post revenue Judgments for defendants Judgments for plaintiffs Judgments in favor June 30 merce Miscella neous Office deputies old judgments Paid U. S. attorneys parole party party-Continued payment or compromise Pending in U. S. Pending July Peonage period Pleas of guilty prisoners Quashed or ruled Realized on fines sentence southern district suits except bankruptcy suits except Total Supreme Court Terminated Trials by jury trust law U. S. courts July U. S. Dismissed United States attorney United States marshal United States penitentiary uraliza Violation
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Page 18 - ... in the course of transportation from one State to another, or to a foreign country, shall be forfeited to the United States, and may be seized and condemned by like proceedings as those provided by law for the forfeiture, seizure and condemnation of property imported into the United States contrary to law.
Page 9 - Rights conferred by patents are indeed very definite and extensive, but they do not give any more than other rights an universal license against positive prohibitions. The Sherman law is a limitation of rights, rights which may be pushed to evil consequences and therefore restrained.
Page 9 - The prohibitions of the statute cannot "... be evaded by good motives. The law is its own measure of right and wrong, of what it permits, or forbids, and the judgment of the courts cannot be set up against it in a supposed accommodation of its policy with the good intention of parties, and it may be, of some good results.
Page 18 - ... made by or between two or more persons or corporations either of whom is engaged in importing any article from any foreign country into the United States, and when such combination, conspiracy, trust, agreement, or contract...
Page 363 - An act to parole United States prisoners, and for other purposes," approved June 25, 1910 (36 Stat.
Page 8 - Unless they entered the combination they could obtain no enameled ware from any manufacturer who was in the combination, and the condition of entry was not to resell to plumbers except at the prices determined by the manufacturers. The trade was, therefore, practically controlled from producer to consumer, and the potency of the scheme was established by the co-operation of 85...
Page 8 - In this statement certain things are prominent. Before the agreements the manufacturers of enameled ware were independent and competitive. By the agreements they were combined, subjected themselves to certain rules and regulations, among others, not to sell their product to the jobbers except at a price fixed not by trade and competitive conditions, but by the decision of the committee of six of their number, and zones of sales were created. And the jobbers were brought into the combination and made...
Page 18 - ... between two or more persons or corporations either of whom, as agent or principal, is engaged in importing any article from any foreign country into the United States, and when such combination, conspiracy, trust, agreement. or contract is intended to operate in restraint of lawful trade, or free competition in lawful trade or commerce, or to increase the market price in any part of the United States of any article or articles imported or intended to be imported into the United States, or of...
Page 70 - In addition, 1,652 miscellaneous matters, embracing everything submitted for the advice or suggestion of the solicitor, or for the formulation of departmental action not included in the foregoing items, were handled by this office.
Page 7 - In applying remedies for this purpose, however, the fact must not be overlooked that injury to the public by the prevention of an undue restraint on, or the monopolization of trade or commerce is the foundation upon which the prohibitions of the statute rest, and moreover that one of I *he fundamental purposes of the statute is to protect, not to destroy, rights of property.