Unfair Competition: A Study of Certain Practices, with Some Reference to the Trust Problem in the United States of America |
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Page 156 - ... any information concerning the nature, kind, quantity, destination, consignee, or routing of any property tendered or delivered to such...
Page 69 - ... to require the purchaser, lessee, or licensee to acquire from the seller, lessor, or licensor, or his nominees, any article or class of articles not protected by the patent ; and any such condition shall be null and void, as being in restraint of trade and contrary to public policy...
Page 232 - Commission, shall be final, subject to review by the Supreme Court of the United States...
Page 231 - Commission, on the charges set forth in this complaint, at which time and place you will have the right under said Act to appear and show cause why an order should not be entered requiring you to cease and desist from the violations of law charged In this complaint.
Page 155 - It shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this chapter, or any officer, agent, or employee of such common carrier, or for any other person or corporation lawfully authorized by such common carrier to receive information therefrom, knowingly to disclose to or to permit to be acquired by any person or corporation other than the shipper or consignee, without the consent of such shipper or consignee, any information...
Page 1 - Unfair methods of competition in commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce, are hereby declared unlawful. The Commission is hereby empowered and directed to prevent persons, partnerships, or corporations, except banks, common carriers subject to the Acts to regulate commerce, air carriers and foreign air carriers subject to the...
Page 112 - Does not act or has not acted or will not act, or does not intend to act, or has not undertaken or will not undertake to act, in obedience to or in conformity with the determinations, directions, suggestions, or requests of any commercial trust with respect to the sale, purchase, or supply of any goods.
Page 70 - ... the contract entitles the purchaser, lessee, or licensee to relieve himself of his liability to observe any such condition on giving the other party three months' notice in writing and on payment in compensation for such relief in the case of a purchase, of such sum, or in the case of a lease or licence...
Page 128 - ... other than those despatched by members of the Conference, they will be credited with a sum equivalent to a certain part (usually 10 per cent) of the aggregate freights paid on their shipments during that period, and that this sum will be paid over to them, if at the end of a further period (usually four or six months) they have continued to confine their shipments to vessels belonging to members of the Conference. The sum so paid is known as a deferred rebate.
Page 2 - Unfair competition consists in passing off, or attempting to pass off, upon the public, the goods or business of one person as and for the goods or business of another.