Mercantile agencies
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Establishments which make a business of collecting information relating to the credit, character, responsibility, and reputation of merchants, for the purpose of furnishing the information to subscribers. Brookfield v. Kitchen, 163 Mo. 546, 63 S. W. 825 ; State v. Morgan, 2 S. D. 32, 48 N. W. 314; Eaton, etc., Co. v. Avery, 83 N. Y. 34, 38 Am. Rep. 389; Genesee Sav. Bank v. Michigan Barge Co.., o2 Mich. 164, 17 N. W. 790.
Defined under Mercantile in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Establishments which make a business of collecting information relating to the credit, cbharacter, responsibility, and reputation of merchants, for the purpose of furnishing the information to subseribers. 15 Amer, & Eng. Ene. Law, 280.