The Anti-Trust Act and the Supreme Court

ISBN: 9781331273073 出版年：2016 页码：140 William Howard Taft Forgotten Books

It is of the highest importance, therefore, to consider, as a preliminary basis for our discus sion of the statute, what the common law was in respect to restraints of trade — that is, its limitation upon the right of property and the right of free contract, and upon the right of one to dispose of his labor. Just what use should be made of the common — law rules on these subjects in giving effect to the statute we can determine later.