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Mercantile Law

Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Abbott (1879)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

That branch of law_ which defines and enforces the rights, duties, and liabilities arising out of mercantile transactions and relations. See "Law Merchant,"

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Same as Law-merchant.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

That branch of law which defines and enforces the rights, duties, and liabilities arising out of mercantile transactions and relations. As to the origin of this branch of law, see Law Merchant; and for its various principles, consult the articles upon the various classes of commercial property, relations, and transactions.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

An expression substantially equivalent to the law-merchant or 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 statutes, constitutes the law for the regulation of their transactions and the solution of their controversies

Defined under Mercantile in Black's Law Dictionary.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

The law of trade; that branch and enforces the rights and duties of merchants sons.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

An expression substantially equivalent to the Juw-merchant or commercial law. It designates the system of rules, customs, and usages generally recognized and adopted by merehants and traders, and which, either in its simplicity or as modified by common law or statutes, constitutes the law for the regulation of their transactions and the solution of their controversies. MERCANTILE LAW AMENDMENT

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

The body of general rules and customs prevailing among persons in trade, and by which, iu addition to statutes and rules of the common law, in the strict sense of the latter term, controversies between them are determined. The expression means substantially the same as the commercial law, and as the law-merchant, q. v.