The Courts have not generally extended the doctrine to the grant of a lease,\u00a0 where the lessee has no freedom to trade at that particular location at the outset.\u00a0 The Courts have distinguished between one who gives up a freedom which he has and one who buys or comes to a location subject to restrictions which he agrees to or knows to apply under the existing lease.<\/p>\n
The restraint of doctrine applies where the restrictions go beyond the use of the property and a wider transaction or arrangements which applies significant restrictions.\u00a0 A distribution agreement with restrictive terms, may in principle be subject to the doctrine Arrangements between motor garages and oil companies and motor garages have been long held to be subject to the doctrine.<\/p>\n\n
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Restraint of Trade Doctrine The common law renders void, a contract which provides for an unreasonable restraint of trade. Restraint of trade refers to a purported contractual provision, which restricts a person\u2019s ability to carry out his trade, profession or business with others.\u00a0 The restriction my restrict a person from setting up business in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28909"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28995,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28909\/revisions\/28995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}