Legal Definition and Related Resources of Broker

One who exercises the calling of negotiating between parties ; the business of buying or selling or any other lawful transactions. A person whose business it is to bring a buyer and seller together. See Williams <& Co. v school district of Pittsburg, 244 A.2d 37, 430 Pa. 509. Any person engaged in the business of effecting transactions in securities for the account of others, but does not include a bank. 15 U.S.C. §78(C)(4).

An individual who is paid a commission for executing customer orders. Either a floor broker who executes orders on the floor of the exchange, or an upstairs broker who handles retail customers and their orders.

An agent who handles the public”s orders to buy and sell securities, commodities or other property. A commission is charged for this service. (See: Commission broker, Dealer)

A licensed legal representative of the policyholder, who negotiates with an insurance company on behalf of a customer, but is paid a commission by the insurance company.

noun

• agent
• bargaining agent
• commission agent
• commission merchant
• customers”man
• dealer
• deputy
• factor
• gobetween
• intermediary
• intermedium
• internuncio
• interpres
• link
• matchmaker
• mediator
• medium
• middleman
• monger
• negotiant
• negotiator
• realtor
• regrater
• representative
• trader
• Associated Concepts: brokerage
• broker”s commission
• exchange broker
• insurance broker
• merchandise broker
• notebroker
• pawnbroker
• real estate broker
• stockbroker

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Broker in Historical Law

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Cabalist, Factor, Lame Duck, Listing, Margin Account, Multiple Listing, Short Sale, Stockbroker.

Broker in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims

Mid. Eng., an agent, a witness of a transaction. An agent employed to make bargains and contracts between other persons in matters of trade, commerce or navigation, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. 83 N.Y. 381.

Note: This legal definition of Broker in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.

Translate Broker from English to Spanish

Translation of Broker, with examples. More about free online translation into Spanish of Corredor and other legal terms is available here.

• Corredor
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What does Broker mean in American Law?

The definition of Broker in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:

A person engaged, ordinarily as an occupation, in any form of brokerage. For particular types of brokers, see entries containing the word, e.g., insurance broker; marriage broker; pawnbroker; stockbroker. See also commission merchant; factor.

Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Broker

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mid-14c. (mid-13c. in surnames), “commercial agent, factor,” also “an agent in sordid business,” from Anglo-French brocour “small trader,” from abrokur “retailer of wine, tapster;” perhaps from Portuguese alborcar “barter,” but more likely from Old French brocheor, from brochier “to broach, tap, pierce (a keg),” from broche “pointed tool” (see broach; this term is also a noun.), giving original sense of “wine dealer,” hence “retailer, middleman, agent.” In Middle English, used contemptuously of peddlers and pimps, “one who buys and sells public office” (late 14c. in Anglo-French), “intermediary in love or marriage” (late 14c.).

Concept of “Broker, Brogger, Broccator”

Traditional meaning of broker, brogger, broccator in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) An agent employed to buy, sell, or make contracts.

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Notes and References

1. Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Broker, Brogger, Broccator”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.

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Translation of Broker

• Spanish: Corredor de comercio
• French: Courtier
• German: Warenmakler
• Italian: Sensale
• Portuguese: Corretor
• Polish: Po&sacute;rednik

Thesaurus of Broker

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