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Coin [fr. coign, Fr.; cuneus, Lat., a wedge], a piece of metal stamped with certain marks and made current at a certain value. The coining of money is in all states the prerogative of the sovereign power; and, as money is the medium of commerce, it is the Crown's prerogative and monopoly, as arbiter of domestic commerce, to give it authority or make it current.By the (English) Coinage Offences Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 99), it was made a felony to counter-feit coin; to colour or gild, so as to make a resemblance to gold or silver coin; to impair or lighten coin; to have in unlawful possession filings or clippings produced by impairing or lightening coin; to buy or sell or import or utter counterfeit coin. There were numerous other provisions tending to the suppression of the manufacturing, import in and uttering of counterfeit coin. See the (English) Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Act, 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 25), an Act to enable effect to be given to an International Convention...
Business
Business, 'business' is a word of wide import. It has no definite meaning. Its perceptions differ from private to public sector or from institutional financing to commercial banking, Mahesh Chandra v. Regional Manager Uttar Pradesh Financial Corpn., AIR 1993 SC 935 (939): (1993) 2 SCC 279. [State Financial Corporation Act, (63 of 1951), s. 24]--Business would undoubtedly be property, unless there is something to the contrary in the enactment, J.K. Trust Bombay v. CIT, (1958) SCR 65: 1957 SCJ 845: AIR 1957 SC 846.Business includes the activities carried on by any public body, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 20, 4th Edn., Para 546, p. 357. The term 'business' includes every trade, occupation and profession. The word 'business' has no technical meaning, but is to be read with reference to the subject and intent of the Act in which it occurs. The term 'business' means an affair requiring attention and labour as the chief concern; mercantile pursuits, that one does for livelihood, occupati...
Producers surplus
Any profit above the normal rate of interest and wages accruing to a producer on account of some monopoly temporary or permanent of the means or materials of production called also Producers rent...
Monopolize
To acquire a monopoly of to have or get the exclusive privilege or means of dealing in or the exclusive possession of to engross the whole of as to monopolize the coffee trade to monopolize land...
Mono
A prefix signifying one single alone as monocarp monopoly Chem indicating that a compound contains one atom one radical or one group of that to the name of which it is united as monoxide monosulphide monatomic etc...
state action
state action 1 : an action that is either taken directly by the state or bears a sufficient connection to the state to be attributed to it NOTE: State actions are subject to judicial scrutiny for violations of the rights to due process and equal protection guaranteed under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Such an action may be the subject of a claim brought under federal law (as section 1983) by one alleging a violation of constitutional rights, privileges, or immunities. 2 : state efforts to displace competition with regulation or a state-supervised monopoly NOTE: Such efforts are immune from antitrust liability. ...
restraint of trade
restraint of trade 1 : an act, fact, or means of curbing the free flow of commerce or trade [covenant not to compete with an employer after leaving is in restraint of trade and must be reasonable to be enforced] 2 : an attempt or intent to eliminate or stifle competition, to effect a monopoly, to maintain prices artificially, or otherwise to hamper or obstruct the course of trade and commerce as it would be if left to the control of natural and economic forces [the Sherman Antitrust Act declared every contract, combination, and conspiracy in restraint of trade to be illegal] ;also : the means (as a contract or combination) employed in such an endeavor see also horizontal restraint, per se rule, rule of reason, vertical restraint Sherman Antitrust Act in the Important Laws section ...
monopolize
monopolize -lized -liz·ing : to get a monopoly of [ an industry] mo·nop·o·li·za·tion [-nÄ -pə-lə-zā-shən] n ...
clayton act
clayton act An amendment to the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act prohibits price discrimination, exclusive dealing contracts and mergers where the effect may lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in commerce. (15 U.S.C. Sec. 12-27) Source: FindLaw ...
Commercium jure gentium commune esse debet, et non in monopolium et privatum paucorum qu'stum convertendum
Commercium jure gentium commune esse debet, et non in monopolium et privatum paucorum qu'stum convertendum. 3 Inst. 181.-(Commerce by the law of nations ought to be common, and not converted to monopoly and the private gain of a few.)...
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