Commercium
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lai. Commerce, trade or trafl^; dealing between one per- 6on and another; a contract. £ue in commerdo; to be a subject of dealing, contract or acquisition.
Inst. 8. 20, pr. 2.
Commercium jure gentium commune esse debet, $i non in m>onopo Uum et privatum paucorum quesstum convertendum; commerce by the law of nations ought to be common, and not converted into monopoly and to the private gain of a few.
8 Inst. 1 8 1, w marg.