1. To conduct business. 2. An agreement between parties.
Law Dictionary – Alternative Legal Definition
To traffic; to transact business; to trade. Makers of an accommodation note are deemed dealers with whoever discounts it. Vernon v, Manhattan Co., 17 Wend. (N. Y.) 524. Dealer. A dealer, in the popular, and therefore in the statutory, sense of the word, is not one who buys to keep, or makes to sell, but one who bujTs to sell again. Norris v. Com., 27 Pa. 496; Com. v. Campbell, 33 Pa. 380. Dealings. Transactions in the course of trade or business. Held to include payments to a bankrupt. Moody A M. 137; 3 Car. & P. 85. Dealers’ talk. The puffing of goods to induce the sale thereof; not regarded in law as fraudulent unless accompanied by some artifice to deceive the purchaser and throw him off his guard or some concealment of intrinsic defects not easily discoverable. Kimball v. Bangs. 144 Mass. 321. 11 N. E. 113; Reynolds v. Palmer (C. C.) 21 Fed. 433.