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clayton act

discrimination, exclusive dealing contracts and mergers where the effect may lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in commerce. (15

Cannelure

or around the rotating band of a gun projectile to lessen the resistance offered to the rifling Also a groove around

Commute

greater or a single thing for an aggregate hence to lessen to diminish as to commute a sentence of death to

Reduce

Reduce, means to lessen in anyway in size, weight, amount, value, price etc., to

Habendum of a Deed

quantity be expressed in the premises, then the habendum may lessen, enlarge, explain, or qualify, but not contradict, or be repugnant

Encumbrance

to property or some other right and that may be lessen its value, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 547. Encumbrance,

Mitigate

etc to soften to meliorate to alleviate to diminish to lessen as to mitigate heat or cold to mitigate grief

Passive trust

into legal and equitable interests being clearly an invention to lessen the force of some pre-existing law. For similar reasons equitable

Leeboard

of planks lowered over the side of a vessel to lessen her leeway when closehauled by giving her greater draught

Facilitate

or less difficult to free from difficulty or impediment to lessen the labor of as to facilitate the execution of a

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