Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Boycott
n. 1. An action designed to achieve the social or economic isolation of an adversary. ( The term derives from Captain Charles C. Boycott, an English landowner in famine-plagued Ireland of the 1870s; because of his ruthless treatment of Irish tenant farmers, the Irish Land League ostracized him. 2. A concerted refusal to do business with a party to express disapproval of that party's practices. 3. A refusal to deal in one transaction in an effort to obtain terms desired in a second transaction. Under the Sherman Antitrust Act, even peaceful persuasion of a person to refrain from dealing with another can amount to a boycott. See 15 USCA ยงยง 1-7. - boycott, ub. Cf. PICKETING; STRIKE.
consumer boycott
See BOYCOTT.
group boycott
Antitrust. 1. CONCERTED REFUSAL TO DEAL. 2. A type of secondary boycott by two or more competitors who refuse to do business with one firm unless it refrains from doing business with an actual or potential competitor of the boycotters. ( A group boycott can violate the Sherman Act and is analyzed under either the per se rule or the rule of reason, depending on the nature of the boycott. See PER SE RULE; RULE OF REASON. "Since early in this century, courts have interpreted Section 1 [of the Sherman Act] to limit the ability of competing firms to agree not to deal with or to isolate another firm. Unlike many cartels, where all competitors voluntarily join to fix prices (and share monopoly rewards), concerted refusals to deal usually involve a subset of all market participants who band together to gain market power by destroying or coercing their rivals. Such organized refusals to deal with a particular firm are usually given the pejorative label of
group boycott.
See BOYCOTT.
primary boycott
A boycott by union members who stop dealing with a former employer.
secondary boycott
See BOYCOTT.