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Definition of Law merchant
1. Noun. The body of rules applied to commercial transactions; derived from the practices of traders rather than from jurisprudence.
Generic synonyms: Jurisprudence, Law
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Lexicographical Neighbors of Law Merchant
Literary usage of Law merchant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"The law-merchant includes many, but not all, of the usages subsisting ...
The term 'law-merchant' is an ambiguous one. The relationship which it bears to ..."
2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"law merchant. The general body of commercial usages in matters relative to commerce.
... The development of the law merchant as part of the common law has ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"law merchant, The. The law merchant was a system of law which grew up in Europe
... Four features of the law merchant may be noted : First, it was customary ..."
4. A History of English Law by William Searle Holdsworth, John Burke (1903)
"The towns had in many cases the right, either by charter or by prescription, to
hold various courts, of pie powder and otherwise, in which the law merchant ..."
5. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"But this is not the place for their discussion, for we take the law merchant to
be not so much the law for a class of men as the law for a class of ..."
6. The Law of Contracts by William Herbert Page (1919)
"For cases of contract at law merchant, see 23 Selden Society (I Select Cases ...
For the relation of the merchant to England and the law merchant to common ..."
7. Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History by Association of American Law Schools (1909)
"CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE law merchant TO THE COMMON LAW 1 BY ... Omnipotence and law
merchant work their arbitrary will, and are irreducible and distracting. ..."
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