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MONOPOLY (Gr. govomeXla or govoircaXwv, exclusive sale, from govds, alone, and irwXeiv, to sell)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 734 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOL-MOS
MONOPOLY (Gr. govomeXla or govoircaXwv, exclusive sale, from govds, alone, and irwXeiv, to sell) , a term which, though used generally in the sense of exclusive possession, is more accurately applied only to grants from the Crown or from
parliament
 , the private act of an individual whereby he obtains
control
  over the
supply
  of any particular article, being properly defined as engrossing." It was from the practice of the sovereign granting to a favourite, or as a reward for good service, a monopoly in the sale or manufacture of some particular class of goods that the system of protecting inventions arose, and this fact lends additional
interest
  to the history of monopolies (see PATENTS). When the practice of making such grants first arose it does not appear easy to say. Sir Edward Coke laid it down that by the ancient common law the king could grant to an inventor, or to the importer of an invention from abroad, a temporary monopoly in his invention, but that grants in restraint of trade were illegal. Such, too, was the law laid down in the first recorded case, Darcy v. Allen (the case of monopolies, 1602), and this decision was never overruled, though the law was frequently evaded. The patent rolls of the Plantagenets show few instances of grants of monopolies (the earliest known is temp. Edw. IT_I.), and we come down to the reign of Henry VIII. before we find much evidence of this exercise of the prerogative in the case of either new inventions or known articles of trade. Elizabeth, as is well known, granted patents of monopoly so freely that the practice became a grave abuse, and on several occasions gave rise to serious complaints in the
House
  of Commons. Lists prepared at the time show that many of the commonest necessaries of life were the subjects of monopolies, by which their price was grievously enhanced. That the queen did not assume the right of making these grants entirely at her pleasure is shown, not only by her own statements in answer to addresses from the
house
 , but by the fact that the preambles to the
instruments
  conveying the grants always set forth some public benefit to be derived from their action. Thus a grant of a monopoly to sell playing-cards is made, because " divers subjects of able bodies, which might go to plough, did employ themselves in the art of making of cards "; and one for the sale of
starch
  is justified on the ground that it would prevent wheat being wasted for the purpose. Accounts of the angry debates in 1565 and 16or are given in Hume and elsewhere. The former debate produced a promise from the queen that she would be careful in exercising her privileges; the latter a proclamation which, received with
great
  joy by the house, really had but little effect in stopping the abuses complained of.
In the first
parliament
  of James I. a " committee of grievances " was appointed, of which Sir Edward Coke was chairman. Numerous monopoly patents were brought up before them, and were cancelled. Many more, however, were granted by the king, and. there grew up a race of " purveyors," who made use of the privileges granted them under the
great
  seal for various purposes of extortion. One of the most notorious of these was Sir Giles Mompesson, who fled the country to avoid trial in 162r. After the introduction of several bills, and several attempts by James to compromise the matter by orders in council and promises, the
Statute
  of Monopolies was passed in 1623. This made all monopolies illegal, except such as might be granted by parliament or were in respect of new manufactures or inventions. Upon this excepting clause is built up the entire English system of letters patent for inventions. The act was strictly enforced, and by. its aid the evil system of monopolies was eventually abolished. Parliament has, of course, never exercised its power of granting to any individual exclusive privileges of dealing in any articles of trade, such as the privileges of the Elizabethan monopolists; but the licences required to be taken out by dealers in wine, spirits, tobacco, &c., are lineal descendants of the old monopoly grants, while the quasi-monopolies enjoyed by
railways, canals, gas and water companies, &c., under acts of parliament, are also representative of the ancient practice.
See W. H. Price, The English Patents of Monopoly (1906).


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