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CHAPTER IX.: REGULATION OF TRADES AND OCCUPATIONS. - Christopher G. Tiedeman, A Treatise on State and Federal Control of Persons and Property in the United States considered from both a Civil and Criminal Standpoint, vol. 1 [1900]

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A Treatise on State and Federal Control of Persons and Property in the United States considered from both a Civil and Criminal Standpoint (St. Louis: The F.H. Thomas Law Book Co., 1900). Vol. 1.

Part of: A Treatise on State and Federal Control of Persons and Property in the United States considered from both a Civil and Criminal Standpoint, 2 vols.

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CHAPTER IX.

REGULATION OF TRADES AND OCCUPATIONS.

SECTION85.General propositions.
86.Prohibition as to certain classes.
87.Police regulations of skilled trades and learned professions.
88.Regulation of practice of learned professions.
89.Regulation of sale of certain articles of merchandise.
90.Regulations to prevent fraud.
91.Legal tender and regulation of the currency.
92.Free coinage of silver and the legal tender decisions.
93.Legislative restraint of importations—Protective tariffs.
94.Liberty of contract, a constitutional right.
95.Compulsory formation of business relations.
96.Regulation of prices and charges.
97.Later cases on regulating prices and charges—Regulations must be reasonable—What is a reasonable regulation, a judicial question.
98.Police regulation of the labor contract.
99.Regulation of wages of workmen—Compulsory insurance and membership in benefit societies—Release from liability for injuries to employees.
100.Regulation of wages of workmen, continued—Time of payment—Medium of payment—Fines and deductions for imperfect work—Mechanics’ liens and exemption of wages.
101.Prohibition of employment of aliens—Exportation of laborers—Importation of laborers under contract—Chinese labor—Employers compelling workmen to leave union.
102.Regulating hours of labor.
103.Regulation of factories, mines, and workshops—Sweatshops.
104.Period of hiring—Breach or termination of labor contract—Compulsory performance of labor contract—Requirement of notice of discharge—Employers required to give statement of reasons for discharge.
105.Regulation of business of insurance.
106.Usury and interest laws.
107.Prevention of speculation.
108.Prevention of combinations in restraint of trade.
109.A combination to corner the market.
109a.Contracts against liability for negligence prohibited.
110.Common law prohibition of combinations in restraint of trade, restated.
111.Industrial and corporate trusts, as combinations in restraint of trade.
112.Modern statutory legislation against trade combinations, virtual monopolies, and contracts in restraint of trade.
113.Different phases of the application of anti-trust statutes—Factor’s system—Control of patents—Combinations against dishonest debtors—Agreements to sell only to regular dealers—Combinations of employers to resist combinations of employees—Department stores.
114.Labor combinations—Trades unions—Strikes.
115.Strikes, continued, and Boycotts.
116.Wagering contracts prohibited.
117.Option contracts, when illegal.
118.General prohibition of contracts on the ground of public policy.
119.Licenses.
120.Prohibition of occupations in general.
121.Prohibition of trade in vice—Social evil, gambling, horse-racing.
122.Prohibition of trades for the prevention of fraud—Adulterations of goods—Harmful or dangerous goods—Prohibition of sale of oleomargarine.
123.Prohibition of ticket brokerage—Ticket-scalping prohibited and punished.
124.Prohibition of sales of game out of season.
125.Prohibition of the liquor trade.
126.Police control of employments in respect to locality.
127.Monopolies—General propositions.
128.Monopolies and exclusive franchises in the case of railroads, bridges, ferries, street railways, gas, water, lighting, telephone and telegraph companies.
129.Patents and copyrights, how far monopolies.
130.When ordinary occupations may be made exclusive monopolies.
131.National, State and municipal monopolies.