---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 57"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "57"
heading: "Separability clause"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/57"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Federal Trade Commission; Promotion of Export Trade and Prevention of Unfair Methods of Competition"
  - "Subchapter I — Federal Trade Commission"
---

# §57. Separability clause


If any provision of this subchapter, or the application thereof to any [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6), partnership, or corporation, or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of this subchapter, and the application of such provisions to any other [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6), partnership, corporation, or circumstance, shall not be affected thereby.


## Source credit

(Sept. 26, 1914, ch. 311, § 17, as added Mar. 21, 1938, ch. 49, § 4, 52 Stat. 114.)