Title 15, Commerce and TradeRelease 119-102
§27 Effect of Partial Invalidity
Title 15 › CHAPTER 1 — MONOPOLIES AND COMBINATIONS IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE › § 27
Summary
If a court finds one part of a law not valid, only that exact part in that case is affected. The rest stays valid.
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Title 15, §27
Commerce and Trade, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
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.
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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 section 12, 13, 14 to 19, 21, and 22 to 27 of this title, and section 52 and 53 of Title 29, Labor. For further details and complete classification of this Act to the Code, see
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note set out under section 12 of this title and Tables.
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Citation
15 U.S.C. § 27
Title 15, Commerce and Trade
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102