Legal Term Dictionary

Pertaining to merchants or their business; having to do with trade and commerce or the buying and selling of commodities. See In re San Gabriel Sanatorium (D. C.) 95 Fed. 273; In re -Pacific Coast Warehouse Co. (C. C.) 123 Fed. 750; Graham v. Hendricks, 22 La. Ann. 524. -Mercantile More...

Pertaining to merchants or their business; having to do with trade and commerce or the buying and selling of commodities. See In re San Gabriel Sanatorium (D. C.) 95 Fed. 273; In re -Pacific Coast Warehouse Co. (C. C.) 123 Fed. 750; Graham v. Hendricks, 22 La. Ann. 524. -Mercantile agencies. 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., 52 Mich. 164, 17 N. W. 790. -Mercantile law. 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.-Mercantile law amendment acts. The statutes 19 & 20 Vict. cc. 60, 97, passed mainly for the purpose of assimilating the mercantile law of England, Scotland, and Ireland.-Mercantile, paper. Commercial paper; such negotiable paper (bills, notes, checks, etc.) as is made or transferred by and between merchants or traders, and is governed by the usages of the business world and the law-merchant.-Mercantile partnership. One which habitually buys and sells; one which buys for the purpose of afterwards selling. Com. v. Natural Gas Co., 32 Pittsb. Leg. J. (O. S.) 310. Less...

A market. An old form of the latter word common in Scotch law, formed from the Latin "mercatum"

A market. An old form of the latter word common in Scotch law, formed from the Latin "mercatum" Less...

Belonging to trade.

Belonging to trade. Less...

Lat. A market. A contract of sale. Supplies for an army, (com-meatus.)

Lat. A market. A contract of sale. Supplies for an army, (com-meatus.) Less...

The practice of buying and selling.

The practice of buying and selling. Less...

A hirer; one that hires.

A hirer; one that hires. Less...

The law of the Mercians. One of the three principal systems of laws which prevailed in England about the beginning of the eleventh century. It was observed in many of the midland counties, and those bordering on the principality of Wales. 1 Bl. Comm. 65.

The law of the Mercians. One of the three principal systems of laws which prevailed in England about the beginning of the eleventh century. It was observed in many of the midland counties, and those bordering on the principality of Wales. 1 Bl. Comm. 65. Less...

A hireling or servant. Jacob.

A hireling or servant. Jacob. Less...

Lat. In the civil law. Reward of labor in money or other things. As distinguished from "pernio," it means the rent of farms, (prwdia rusticl) Calvin.

Lat. In the civil law. Reward of labor in money or other things. As distinguished from "pernio," it means the rent of farms, (prwdia rusticl) Calvin. Less...

All commodities which merchants usually buy and sell, whether at wholesale or retail; wares and commodities such as are ordinarily the objects of trade and commerce. But . the term is never understood as including, real estate, and is rarely applied to provisions such as are purchased day by day, More...

All commodities which merchants usually buy and sell, whether at wholesale or retail; wares and commodities such as are ordinarily the objects of trade and commerce. But . the term is never understood as including, real estate, and is rarely applied to provisions such as are purchased day by day, or to such other articles as are required for Immediate consumption. See Passaic Mfg. Co. v. Hoffman, 3 Daly (N. Y.) 512; Hein v. O'Connor (Tex. App.) 15 S. W. 414 ; Elliott v. Swartwout, 10 Pet. 137, 9 L. Ed. 373; Pickett v. State, 60 Ala. 78; The Marine City (D. C.) 6 Fed. 415. -Merchandise marks act, 1862. The statute 25 A 26 Vict c. 88, designed to prevent the fraudulent marking of merchandise and the fraudulent sale of merchandise falsely marked. Less...