Combination Act, 1875
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Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act, 1875 · the compromise of 1875 · the law of 1875
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act, 1875, presented as a compromise between collectivist and individualist positions and analysed at length as the central case study of the combination-law history.
The compromise of 1875 represents in the main the combined influence of democracy and collectivism—an influence, however, which was still balanced or counteracted by ideas belonging to individualistic liberalism.
The combination law of 1875 is, on the face of it, a compromise between the desire of collectivists to promote combined bargaining and the conviction of individualists that every man ought, as long as he does not distinctly invade the rights of his neighbours, to enjoy complete contractual freedom.
The combination law of 1875 differs, again, in its whole spirit from the law of 1825.