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Definition of Commercial law

1. Noun. The body of rules applied to commercial transactions; derived from the practices of traders rather than from jurisprudence.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Commercial Law

Literary usage of Commercial law

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1865)
"... He was finally forbidden by the reigning member of the house to proceed. commercial law.-NO. 21. THE LAW OF PLACE WHERE CONTRACT IS MADE. ..."

2. Introduction to the Science of Law: Systematic Survey of the Law and by Karl Gareis (1911)
"Italy, the south of France, the north of Spain, and the cities lying in the Danube and Rhine domains are the places where commercial law in Europe first ..."

3. The Constitutional Law of the United States by Westel Woodbury Willoughby (1910)
"This principle with reference to commercial law was first laid down by the Supreme Court in the case of Swift v. Tyson,38 in which case, decided in 1842, ..."

4. Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime by Joseph Story, Edmund Hatch Bennett (1863)
"Hinds for the sake of preserving uniformity in our own decisions, though it mars the symmetry of the commercial law, must depend upon the subsequent ..."

5. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Reviewby William B. Dana by William B. Dana (1865)
"17, interest and commercial law, Nos. 18, 19, and 20, usury 61 bankruptcy ... 374 commercial law, No. 22, The law of Cotton, trade of, in 1864 236 shipping ..."

6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"These policies use the word "pirates" in that simple and ordinary sense in which it now il and immemorially has been known to the general commercial law of ..."

7. Industrial Arts Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"Ry Age 54:61-3 Ja 10 '13 commercial law My 15 '13 Efficient methods of handling correspondence. European laws and the American manufacturer. AJ Wolfe. ..."

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