Trade

The act or business of exchanging cemfnodities by barter; or the business of buying and selling for money; traffic; barter. Webster; May v. Sloan, 101 U. S. 237, 25 In Ed. 797; In S. v. Cassidy (D. C.) 67 Fed. 841; Queen Ins. Co. v. State, 86 Tex. 250, 24 S. W. 397, 22 L. R. A. 483. The business which a person has learned and which he carries on for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation, particularly mechanical employment; distinguished from the liberal arts and learned professions, and from agriculture. Webster; Woodfield v. Colzey, 47 Ga. 124; Pcople v. Warden of City Prison, 144 N. Y. 529, 39 N. E. 686, 27 L. R. A. 718; In re Stone Cutters' Ass'n. 23 Pa. Co. Ct. R. 520. Traffic; commerce, exchange of goods for other goods, or for money. All wholesale trade, all buying in order to sell again by wholesale, may be reduced to three serts: The home trade, the foreign trade of consumption. and the carrying trade. 2 Smith, Wealth Nat b. 2, c. 5.

— Trade dollar. A silver coin of the United States, of the weight of four hundred and twenty grains, troy. Rev. St. U. S. § 3513 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 2345).

— Trade fixtures. See Fixtures.

— Trade usage. The usage or customs commonly observed by persons conversant in, or connected with, a particular trade.