mercantile law

Other forms: mercantile laws

Definitions of mercantile law
  1. noun
    the body of rules applied to commercial transactions; derived from the practices of traders rather than from jurisprudence
    synonyms: commercial law, law merchant
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    type of:
    jurisprudence, law
    the collection of rules imposed by authority
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