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COMMERCIAL

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Relating to or connected with trade and traffic or commerce in general. U. a v. Breed, 24 Fed. Cas. 1222; Earnshaw v. Cadwalader, 145 U. S. 258, 12 Sup. Ct 851, 36 L. Ed. 693; Zante Currants (O. C) 73 Fed. 189. Commercial agency. The same as a "mercantile" agency. In re United States Mercantile Reporting, etc., Co., 52 Hun, 611, 4 N. Y. Supp. 916. See MERCANTILE. Commercial … [Read more...] about COMMERCIAL

COMMENCEMENT OF SUIT

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The suit is considered as commenced from the issuing of the writ; and if the teste or date of the writ be fictitious, the true time of its issuing may be a and proved, whenever the purposes of justice require it; as in cases of a plea of tender or of the statute of limitations. … [Read more...] about COMMENCEMENT OF SUIT

COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION

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An arbitration proceeding intended to settle a dispute regarding a transaction conducted in commercial trading such as the buying, selling or bartering of goods and services. … [Read more...] about COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION

COMBE

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A small or narrow valley. … [Read more...] about COMBE

COMITIA

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In Roman law. An assembly, either (1) of the Roman curiae, in which case it was called the "comitia curiata vel cola to;" or (2) of the Roman centuries, in which case it was called the "comitia centuriata;" or (8) of the Roman tribes, in which case it was called the "comitia tributa." Only patricians were members of the first comitia, and only pleblans of the last; but the … [Read more...] about COMITIA

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