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Noun: law merchant  lo'mur-chunt
  1. The body of rules applied to commercial transactions; derived from the practices of traders rather than from jurisprudence
    - mercantile law, commercial law

Derived forms: law merchants, laws merchant

Type of: jurisprudence, law

Encyclopedia: Law merchant

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