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mercantile law

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mercantile law (commercial law) n. that broad area of the law, statutes, cases and customs, which deals with trade, sales, buying, selling, transportation, contracts and all forms of business transactions. Much of the law of business transactions is covered by the Uniform Commercial Code which has been adopted almost universally in the United States. (See: commercial law, Uniform Commercial Code, seller, contract, corporation)



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According to sources, the erudite woman got third position in the LLB exam in 1990, and was awarded a gold medal in the subject of mercantile law.
Principles and concepts of the cannon law supported by the new at that time Romanist legal science were taken over with some modifications by the mercantile law (9).
A third importation from Roman law came later: the mercantile law of the bankers and the traders of the Continent.
 
 
 
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