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Definition of Merchantable
1. Adjective. Fit to be offered for sale. "Marketable produce"
Similar to: Salable, Saleable
Derivative terms: Market, Market, Vend, Vend
Definition of Merchantable
1. a. Fit for market; such as is usually sold in market, or such as will bring the ordinary price; as, merchantable wheat; sometimes, a technical designation for a particular kind or class.
Definition of Merchantable
1. Adjective. Fit for market; such as is usually sold in market, or such as will bring the ordinary price; as, merchantable wheat; sometimes, a technical designation for a particular kind or class. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Merchantable
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Merchantable
1. Logs from which at least of the volume can be converted into sound grades of lumber ("standard and better" framing lumber). (05 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Merchantable
Literary usage of Merchantable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forest Mensuration by Herman Haupt Chapman (1921)
"Total versus merchantable Heights as a Basis for Tree Classes. Where cubic
contents, either total or merchantable, are the basis of tree volumes, ..."
2. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"Where the article bargained for and to be furnished In the future was a merchantable
crop of tobacco, It was held that It was the sale of a particular thing ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"If said title is merchantable I agree to make settlement as above stated, but if
said title is not merchantable, and cannot be made merchantable within a ..."
4. Prince George's County by Jay Allan Bonsteel, William Henry Alexander, Benjamin Le Roy Miller, Frederick Haynes Newell, Louis Agricola Bauer, Fred Wilson Besley (1911)
"merchantable PINE. The merchantable pine class, constitutes 13 per cent. of the
wooded area, and exceeds that of the merchantable hardwoods over twofold. ..."
5. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"What is meant by merchantable. The requirement when it exists that goods shall
be merchantable does not require that the goods shall be of first quality or ..."
6. The Law of Sales of Personal Property by Francis Marion Burdick (1901)
"Seller engages that Goods are merchantable. — Whether the seller is manufacturer
or dealer, he impliedly engages that goods sold by description are ..."
7. Archives of Maryland by Maryland Historical Society (1887)
"Liber z. merchantable tobacco, to be paid unto the said Leonard his heirs ...
three hundred fiftie and three pound weight of good merchantable tobacco to be ..."
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