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Definition of Mercantile agency
1. Noun. An organization that provides businesses with credit ratings of other firms. "Dun & Bradstreet is the largest mercantile agency in the United States"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mercantile Agency
Literary usage of Mercantile agency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898 by William Miller Collier, William Horace Hotchkiss, Frank Bixby Gilbert, Fred Eugene Rosbrook (1921)
"A statement in writing by a bankrupt to a mercantile agency, though false, ...
When a person makes a statement to a mercantile agency, he makes it for the ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"... mercantile agency for services to be performed [by it]; that the Sprague
mercantile agency, for the sum of money named In said note, agreed, ..."
3. A Treatise on the Bankruptcy Law of the United States by Harold Remington (1915)
"Annual Subscription to mercantile agency Reports.—Annual subscriptions to mercantile
agencies' reports are allowable claims even though a large portion of ..."
4. Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations by Seymour Dwight Thompson, Edward Franklin White (1910)
"mercantile agency. To establish, maintain and conduct a general mercantile agency;
to carry on every branch of business usually transacted in connection ..."
5. The Law of Literature, Reviewing the Laws of Literary Property in by Appleton Morgan (1875)
"... however.4 The keeping of a mercantile agency, whose business it is to obtain
information respecting the credit and responsibility of persons in business ..."
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