{"id":364764,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/restraint-of-trade.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"restraint-of-trade","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/restraint-of-trade.html","title":{"rendered":"Restraint Of Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"fl-index-heading\">\n    <p>term:<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"fl-h1 fl-mb20\"><\/h1>\n\n    <dl class=\"fl-index-heading-description-list\">\n            <dt class=\"fl-mb10\"><p class=\"fl-text-bold\"><\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p><b>1<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> an act, fact, or means of curbing the free flow of commerce or trade &#91;covenant not to compete with an employer after leaving is in <i>restraint of trade<\/i> and must be reasonable to be enforced&#93; <br \/>  <b>2<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> 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 &#91;the Sherman Antitrust Act declared every contract, combination, and conspiracy in <i>restraint of trade<\/i> to be illegal&#93; <br \/>  <i>;also<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> the means (as a contract or combination) employed in such an endeavor see also <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/horizontal-restraint.html\">horizontal restraint<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/per-se-rule.html\">per se rule<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/rule-of-reason.html\">rule of reason<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/vertical-restraint.html\">vertical restraint<\/a> <i>Sherman Antitrust Act<\/i> in the Important Laws section <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n    <div class=\"fl-index-heading-source\">Source: Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Law \u00a91996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;Restraint Of Trade&#8217;? Learn more about legal terms and the law at FindLaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":358119,"menu_order":0,"template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/DictionaryArticleController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false},"dictionary_tags":[],"class_list":["post-364764","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/364764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=364764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}