CONCERTED REFUSAL TO DEAL

concerted refusal to deal.Antitrust. An agreement between two or more persons or firms to not do business with a third party. • The parties to the agreement may or may not be competitors. Concerted refusals to deal may violate § 1 of the Sherman Act and are analyzed under either the per se rule or the rule of reason, depending on the nature of the agreement. See BOYCOTT; PER SE RULE; RULE OF REASON. CONCERT OF ACTION concert of action.See CONCERTED ACTION. CONCERT-OF-ACTION RULEconcert-of-action rule.See WHARTON’S RULE. CONCESSI concessi (k<<schwa>>n-ses-I). [Latin] Hist. I have granted. • Concessi creates a covenant in a lease for years; it does not warrant title. Concessi often appeared in the phrase demisi, concessi, et ad firmam tradidi (“demised, granted, and let to farm”). Cf. DEDI.“Concessi (a word much used in Conveyances). In Law it creates a Covenant, as Dedi does a Warranty.” Thomas Blount, Nomo-Lexicon: A Law-Dictionary (1670). [Blacks Law 8th]