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  • Private International Law

    Private International Law

    See international law .

  • Charterparty

    Charterparty

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Charterparty Meaning of Charterparty (Carta partita, a deed cut in two.) A written agreement by which a shipowner lets an entire ship, or a part of it, to a merchant for the conveyance of goods, binding […]

  • Charterparty

    Charterparty

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Charterparty Meaning of Charterparty (Carta partita, a deed cut in two.) A written agreement by which a shipowner lets an entire ship, or a part of it, to a merchant for the conveyance of goods, binding […]

  • Law Merchant

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Law merchant Meaning of Law merchant In England. The general body of commercial usages in matters relative to commerce. Blackstone calls it the “custom of merchants,” and ranks it under the head […]

  • Restraint Of Trade

    At common law , contracts in restraint of trade are those with a stranger to the contractor ‘s business , which wholly or partially restrict the freedom of the contractor in carrying on that business as otherwise he would . See Northern securities Co. v United States , 193 […]

  • Publication

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Publication Meaning of Publication The act by which a thing is made public. Printing without circulation is not publication (5 Fed. 729), and circulation in manuscript is publication (3 Fed. 486). See, […]

  • Marine Insurance

    Marine Insurance

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Marine Insurance Meaning of Marine Insurance An insurance against marine losses, that is, the losses incident to marine adventure. An insurance against risks connected with navigation to which a ship, […]

  • Bank

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Bank Meaning of Bank An association or corporation whose business it is to receive money on deposit , cash checks or drafts, discount commercial papers, make loans and issue promissory notes payable to […]

  • Contract

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Contract Meaning of Contract A deliberate engagement between competent parties upon a legal consideration to do or abstain from doing some act. It is essential to the creation of a contract that the […]

  • Building

    Anything erected by art, and fixed upon or in the soil, composed of different pieces connected together and designed for stand more or less permanently, enclosing a space within its walls, and usually, but not necessarily, covered with a roof.

  • Market

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Market Meaning of Market A public place of commercial activity where goods are bought and sold. A public time and appointed place of buying and selling; also purchase and sale. In the stock market, the […]

  • Child Labour

    Child labour in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, child labour is: Convention No 138 (Minimum Age Convention) of the International Labour Organization states that the minimum age of employment in acceding countries must not be less than fifteen years. This may be lowered to thirteen years […]

  • Nafta

    Nafta

    Definition of Nafta The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Nafta: North American Free Trade Agreement. See: FREE TRADE in this legal dictionary and in the world encyclopedia of law. Nafta: Resources Notes and References Drislane, R., & Parkinson, G. […]

  • Sale

    Sale

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Sale Meaning of Sale The transmutation or transfer of the property in a personal chattel from one person to another for a consideration paid or agreed to be paid. state v Mitchell, 156 N.C. 659, 72 S.E. […]

  • Merger

    Merger

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Merger Meaning of Merger In relation to corporations, the term denotes the amalgamation of two corporations to form a new one. The absorption of one corporation by another, which retains its name and […]