Commercium

I.

In the civil law. Commerce; trafiic; the right or power of purchase and sale; power over a subject of sale. Commercium jure gentium commune esse debet, et non in monopolium et privatum paucorum qnsestum convertendnm: commerce, by the law of nations, ought to be common, and not converted into monopoly and to the private gain of a few.

In international law. Commercia belli: communications or conventions of war; arrangements between hostile powers by which" intercourse is, for the time, established between them, as for the purpose of burying the dead, exchanging prisoners, atid the like; contracts or conventions between the subjects of such powers, as ransom bills, contracts made by prisoners of war for subsistence, and the lika

Lat.

In the civil law. Commerce; business; trade; dealings in the nature of purchase and sale; a contract. Commercium jure gentium commune esse debet, et non in monopolium et privatum paucorum questium convertendum. 3 Inst. 181. Comnierce, by the law of nations, ought to be common, and not

I. Commerce; traffic. Commercia belli: compacts of war; truces; contracts between hostile nations or their subjects.

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.