Sen. John Sherman (R â OH), the principal author of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The Sherman Antitrust Act (Sherman Act, 26 Stat. 209, 15 U.S.C. Â§Â§ 1 â 7) is a landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law (or  competition law ) passed by Congress in 1890.he purpose of the [Sherman] Act is not to protect businesses from the working of the market; it is to protect the public from the failure of the market.
By Ginny Wiehardt. Definition: Mystery is a genre of fiction in which a detective, either an amateur or a professional, solves a crime or a series of crimes. Because detective stories rely on logic, supernatural elements rarely come into play.
Chantry is the English term for the establishment of an institutional chapel on private land or within a greater church, where a priest would chant masses. The same term is also used for the endowment itself. The word derives from the Latin cantaria, meaning 'licence to sing mass'.