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MERCHANTMAN

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A ship or vessel employed in foreign or domestic commerce or in the merchant service. … [Read more...]

MERCHANTS ACCOUNTS

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(Merchants' Accounts) In the statute of limitations, 21 Jac. 1. c. 16, there is an exception which has been copied in the acts of the legislatures of a number of the States, that its provisions shall not apply to such accounts as concern trade and merchandise between merchant and merchant, their factors or servants. 2. This exception, it has been holden, applies to actions of … [Read more...]

MERCANTILE

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Pertaining to merchants or their business; having to do with trade and commerce or the buying and selling of commodities. See In re San Gabriel Sanatorium (D. C.) 95 Fed. 273; In re Pacific Coast Warehouse Co. (C. C.) 123 Fed. 750; Graham v. Hendricks, 22 La. Ann. 524. Mercantile agencies. Establishments which make a business of collecting information relating to the credit, … [Read more...]

MERCHET

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In feudal law. A fine or composition paid by inferior tenants to the lord for liberty to dispose of their daughters in marriage. Cowell. The same as march eta {a. v.) … [Read more...]

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