The facts in neither case required the consideration of the question as to whether the Sherman act prohibited every unification of formerly competing properties and every restraint of trade, reasonable or unreasonable but, owing to the uncertainty of the public concerning the meaning of the law, the court stated definitely the meaning and scope of the act.
"History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)"
E. Benjamin Andrews
When in the fulness of time the Crown had accomplished its work of unification, it came into conflict with Parliament, and after a series of convulsions, in which one king lost his head and another his throne, political evolution resumed its normal course.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
Then they portended the unification of England under the Tudors, or the unification of France under the eleventh Louis.
"The Three Heron's Feathers"
Hermann Sudermann