Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 1 — Monopolies and Combinations in Restraint of Trade
§ 27. Effect of partial invalidity
Statutory text
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this Act shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 63–323 § 28 · 38 Stat. 730
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 27
Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, § 28, formerly § 26, 38 Stat. 740
Target inherited from the preceding amendment note.
Source evidence
Code source credit
Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, § 28, formerly § 26, 38 Stat. 740Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 26. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this Act shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This Act, referred to in text, is act Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, 38 Stat. 730, known as the Clayton Act, which is classified generally to sections 12, 13, 14 to 19, 21, and 22 to 27 of this title, and sections 52 and 53 of Title 29, Labor. For further details and complete classification of this Act to the Code, see References in Text note set out under section 12 of this title and Tables.
Credits
1914–2002 · 3 acts
- 1914Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, § 28, formerly § 26, 38 Stat. 740
- 1980renumbered § 27, Pub. L. 96–493, § 2, , 94 Stat. 2568
- 2002renumbered § 28, Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title IV, § 14102(d), , 116 Stat. 1922.
Show as published
(Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, § 28, formerly § 26, 38 Stat. 740; renumbered § 27, Pub. L. 96–493, § 2, , 94 Stat. 2568; renumbered § 28, Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title IV, § 14102(d), , 116 Stat. 1922.)