Question

An action that violates the law, with no consideration given to the circumstances surrounding the action, is called:

t one:

a. primitive.

b. collusive.

c. illegal per se.

d. immoral.

Answer 1

Ans.

An action that violates the law, with no consideration given to the circumstances surrounding the action, is called illegal per se.
Correct option is C.

In US this term is widely used in the anticompetitive laws. Many times when the firms engage in behavior such as forming cartel or engaging in price fixing , such activities are called as violating the law and illegal per se without giving consideration to circumstances of that if they are anticompetitive in nature.