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LAW MERCHANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The body of rules applied to commercial transactions; derived from the practices of traders rather than from jurisprudence
Synonyms:
commercial law; law merchant; mercantile law
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("law merchant" is a kind of...):
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
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