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federal trade commission (ftc)
to promote free and fair competition in interstate commerce through prevention of trade restraints such as price-fixing agreements, false advertising, illegal combinations of competitors and other unfair methods of competition. Source: FindLaw
Reward
several years in England on the ground that persons committed crimes for the purpose of obtaining them by false accusations, and the Home Office, though urgently requested to offer a reward for the discovery of a series … for the discovery of a series of murders in White chapel in 1888, steadily refused to do so. Advertising a reward for the return of property stolen or lost with the use of words 'purporting that no
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Gaming or gambling
Winning money by 'ill practice' in play is made punishable in the same way as obtaining money under false pretences; and by s. 18 wagers are declared to be irrecoverable at law, and wagering contracts void. As … Geo. 5, c. 58), and see Elderton v. United Kingdom Totalisator Co., (1935) 1 Ch 373 (as to advertisement of football pool on credit); WAGER; BETTING; and LOTTERY; and see Chitty's Statutes, tit.'Game and Gaming.' Consult Coldridge
libel
: a defamatory statement or representation esp. in the form of written or printed words ;specif : a false published statement that injures an individual's reputation (as in business) or otherwise exposes him or her to public … the reputation of by libel [respondent's complaint alleged that he had been libeled by statements in a full-page advertisement "New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964)"] 2 : to proceed against in law by
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