Meaning

1 senses
  1. The body of law that applies to the rights, relations, and conduct of persons and business engaged in commerce, merchandising, trade, and sales.

    Handelsrecht

More definitions
  • the body of rules applied to commercial transactions; derived from the practices of traders rather than from jurisprudence

Translations

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By meaning 1
body of law that applies to business:

Forms

plural: commercial laws
Singularcommercial law
Pluralcommercial laws

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
trade lawmercantile law
Close in meaning
  • the body of rules applied to commercial transactions; derived from the practices of traders rather than from jurisprudence:mercantile lawlaw merchant

Word family

2 related words

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