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- W759969338 abstract "(a) In Early English Law. The early English cases in restraint of trade are actions upon covenants in bonds by which the obligor agreed not to exercise his trade in a more or less restricted territory. These cases seem to make no point of the narrowness of the restriction either as to space or time, but treat all such covenants as void. Thus a condition in a bond by the defendant not to use his art of a dyer's craft within the plaintiff's town for half a year was held invalid, the court saying, And per Dieu, if the plaintiff were here he should go to prison until he paid a fine to the King. Other early cases holding such covenants void are the Blacksmith's case,2 where one blacksmith agreed with another of the same town not to carry on his trade within the town; Colgate v. Bacheler,3 where a haberdasher agreed that for a period of four years he would not carry on his trade in the county of Kent; and an anonymous case 4 where an apprentice at the time of his appirenticeship agreed not to employ his craft for four years at Nottingham. !Not only did the early cases attach no importance to the narrowness or the generality of the restriction, but they made no distinction as to whether the contract was a bare one not to compete, or was made as part of a contract for a term of employment, or as ancillary to the sale of a business. The reasons for holding contracts not to engage in a trade or employment void were not stated in the early cases, but the objections to such covenants are not difficult to surmise when it is remembered that at that time there were few trades a man could follow without having been duly apprenticed, and that there were perhaps no other trades in which he was competent; and when it is remembered that follow-" @default.
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- W759969338 title "Validity of Contracts Not to Compete" @default.
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