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n.Commercial law; the law that governs merchants, trade, and commerce.
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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See: commercial lawCategory: Business, LLCs & Corporations
Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. Gerald N. Hill, Kathleen Thompson Hill. 2009.
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n.that broad area of the law (also called commercial law), statutes, cases and customs which deal with trade, sales, buying, selling, transportation, contracts and all forms of business transactions. Much of the law of business transactions is covered by the Uniform Commercial Code, which has been adopted almost universally in the United States.
Law dictionary. EdwART. 2013.
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mercantile law — UK US noun [U] ► LAW COMMERCIAL LAW(Cf. ↑commercial law) … Financial and business terms
mercantile law — noun the body of rules applied to commercial transactions; derived from the practices of traders rather than from jurisprudence • Syn: ↑commercial law, ↑law merchant • Topics: ↑law, ↑jurisprudence • Hypernyms: ↑law, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
mercantile law — An expression substantially equivalent to commercial law. It designates the system of rules, customs, and usages generally recognized and adopted by merchants and traders, and which, either in its simplicity or as modified by common law or… … Black's law dictionary
mercantile law — An expression substantially equivalent to commercial law. It designates the system of rules, customs, and usages generally recognized and adopted by merchants and traders, and which, either in its simplicity or as modified by common law or… … Black's law dictionary
mercantile law — n. law which pertains to commercial transactions; commercial law, law applying to business matters … English contemporary dictionary
mercantile law — The commercial law, which includes those aspects of a country s legal code that apply to banking, companies, contracts, copyrights, insolvency, insurance, patents, the sale of goods, shipping, trademarks, transport, and warehousing … Big dictionary of business and management
mercantile law — see commercial law … Business law dictionary
mercantile law — Same as law merchant … Ballentine's law dictionary
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mercantile Law Amendment Acts — The statutes 19 & 20 Viet., cc. 60, 97, passed mainly for the purpose of assimilating the mercantile law of England, Scotland, and Ireland … Black's law dictionary