law of merchants
21law merchant — n. all the rules and usages originating in the customs of merchants and now applied to dealings in trade and commerce, where not changed by statute; mercantile or commercial law …
22Law Merchant — The Law Merchant is a legal system used by merchants in medieval Europe, including England. Rather than being the result of the edict of a final authority, it was evolved based on common usage.OriginsThe Law Merchant, or Lex Mercatoria , was… …
23law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law. [1615 25] * * * ▪ medieval European law during the Middle Ages, the body of customary rules and… …
24law merchant — A body of commercial law embracing the usages of merchants in different commercial countries, but not resting exclusively on the institutions and local customs of any particular country, consisting of certain principles of equity and usages of… …
25Merchants Staplers — ▪ English merchant group formally Company of the Merchants of the Staple company of English merchants who controlled the export of English wool from the late 13th century through the 16th century. English wool exports were concentrated in …
26Law of Germany — The modern German legal system is a system of law which is grounded on the principles laid out by the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, though many of the most important laws as for example most regulations of the civil code (… …
27law code — Systematic compilation of law or legal principles. The oldest extant fragments of a law code are tablets from the ancient city of Ebla dating to с 2400 BC. The best known ancient code is that of Hammurabi. Roman legal records began in the 5th… …
28mercantile law — n. Commercial law; the law that governs merchants, trade, and commerce. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008. mercantile law …
29law merchant — noun the body of rules applied to commercial transactions; derived from the practices of traders rather than from jurisprudence (Freq. 2) • Syn: ↑mercantile law, ↑commercial law • Topics: ↑law, ↑jurisprudence • Hypernyms: ↑ …
30Law, Bonar — ▪ prime minister of United Kingdom born Sept. 16, 1858, Kingston, N.B., Can. died Oct. 30, 1923, London prime minister of Great Britain from Oct. 23, 1922, to May 20, 1923, the first holder of that office to come from a British overseas… …
