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
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.