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	Law Merchant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The guiding spirit of the merchant law was that it ought to evolve from commercial practice, respond to the needs of the merchants, and be comprehensible and acceptable to the merchants who submitted to it.
		International commercial law today owes some of its fundamental principles to the Law Merchant as it was developed in the medieval ages.
		The Law Merchant also strengthened the concept of party autonomy: whatever the rules of the Law Merchant were, the parties were always free to choose whether to take a case to court, what evidence to submit and which law to apply.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Law_Merchant (1352 words)

	LAW MERCHANT or LEX MERCATORIA - LoveToKnow Article on LAW MERCHANT or LEX MERCATORIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The law merchant owed its origin to the fact that the civil law was not sufficiently responsive to the growing demands of commerce, as well as to the fact that trade in premedieval times was practically in the hands of those who might be termed cosmopolitan merchants, who wanted a prompt and effective jurisdiction.
		The history of the law merchant in England is divided into three stages: the first prior to the time of Coke, when it was a special kind of law as distinct from the common lawadministered in special courts for a special class of the community (I.e.
		To the law merchant modern English law owes the fundamental principles in the law of partnership, negotiable instruments and trade marks.
	68.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LA/LAW_MERCHANT_or_LEX_MERCATORIA.htm (291 words)

	LAWSO 160 Keywords: Law Merchant (6)
		Originally the law merchant was used in the special quasi-judicial courts like the guilds in Italy and later the piedpoudre courts (the lowest and most expeditious of the justice courts in ancient England) pg201and431.
		The law merchant was started in the early eleventh century for the purpose of protecting foreign merchants not under the jurisdiction and protection of the local law (pg201).
		Benson says that the law merchant had primary rules of obligation on how the merchants were supposed to treat each other, and it also had secondary rules in establishing an institution (laws and the court) to induce recognition and resolve disputes (www.unites.uquam.ca/ideas/data/papers/fthflorst96/09.).
	home.earthlink.net /~garrickl/KEY_6.htm (459 words)

	bainbridge
		Because the "law merchant" system was based on custom it was able to "escape from the rules and rigidity of feudal land law, and also from judges and juries who knew little of the life of commerce."[32] Disputes between merchants were settled by an international customary mercantile law that mercantile courts enforced.
		The "law merchant" system sought to facilitate commerce by protecting the expectations of the parties through the liberal use of custom and practice, this use of custom and practice led to many of the practices of modern merchants and the rules of commercial law.
		Merchants and commercial firms make "decisions in such a way that [their] profits will be as large as possible."[174] Furthermore, merchants can be assumed to be acting at arms-length, from roughly equal bargaining positions, and with similar goals.
	www.cisg.law.pace.edu /cisg/biblio/bainbridge.html (16694 words)

	FROM THE MEDIEVAL LAW MERCHANT TO E-MERCHANT LAW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Merchant laws and procedures, in turn, were administered ex aequo et bono, equally and fairly, as distinct from according to the law of the land.
		This informality was reaffirmed in the insistence that merchant justice was to be rendered expeditiously.
		Law Merchant practices were also apparent in the rules of evidence and procedure applied by courts of law.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utlj/533/533_trakman.html (14694 words)

	Debt, Mortgage, and the Law Merchant
		He is a servant to the merchants of the earth, because their law, the Law Merchant, has full jurisdiction over debt within their system.
		In addition to the property that escheated to the king on their departure, the Jews left behind a law of debtors and creditors developed in the Talmud, introduced in the exchequer and preserved in the laws of England.
		The law of the merchants of the earth in England was merged with the Common Law of England, which up to that time contained only Biblical Law.
	www.ecclesia.org /truth/debt.html (3169 words)

	The 'Law Merchant' and the Fair Court of St. Ives, 1270-1324
		The merchants participated in each of these areas of authority, especially in rendering judgments; however, the same could be said of the unfree suitors of a contemporary manorial court, and there is little evidence indicating that merchants possessed any unique rights to independence or self-government.
		Under this interpretation, merchants possessed the privilege of being judged by the law merchant in merchant courts, much in the same way that churchmen had the right to be judged by canon law in ecclesiastical courts.
		Indeed, the very use of the term “the law merchant” may be inappropriate, as the fair court rolls demonstrate substantial variation in the principles established secundum legem mercatoriam as well as in the terms employed to describe their source of authority.
	www.stevesachs.com /papers/paper_thesis.html (16582 words)

	Lex Mercatoria
		Second, it is used to distinguish the so-called unwritten law, that is, traditional law, law which from custom has become the law of the land, from the statute law or law declared by parliament.
		The Law Merchant The history of the law merchant or Lex Mercatoria is therefore really the history of private international law which grew in great degree out of the transactions between different nations.
		As heads of the Guild, the consules mercatorum administered the law, but the city magistrates were under a strict obligation to which they had to swear on entering upon their office, to aid if necessary, the Guild Consuls with all the powers of the state in securing the execution of their judicial sentences.
	szabo.best.vwh.net /lex.html (2203 words)

	Merchant Law Associates, Law firm in Karachi, Pakistan. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Merchant Law Associates, Law firm in Karachi, Pakistan.
		They also want to be aware of the latest developments in the field of law to take advantage of any new legislature leading to cost cutting helping them sustain the list of existing clients.
		Merchant Law Associates would like to introduce itself as one of the leading law firms in the Karachi, Pakistan.
	www.merchantlawassociates.com (279 words)

	Brief History on Our American Common Law
		The Common Law was expounded over the years in hundreds of thousands of case decisions as a result of trials in which the Common Law jury acted as the Judges, and in which they exercised the authority to hear and decide questions of both Law and fact.
		The Judge in a Court of Common Law is an impartial referee of the dispute, and he is bound to protect the Rights of the parties to the dispute, or he will have lost whatever jurisdiction he may have had, or claimed to have had.
		And the Common Law of the States may not be modified, limited nor abrogated either by an act of the legislature (Congress or State Legislature) or by a ruling of some judge or by any county board of commissioners or any other servant to the people.
	www.svpvril.com /OACL.html (9964 words)

	LAW MERCHANT - Online Information article about LAW MERCHANT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		mercantile transactions, laid down by merchants themselves for the purpose of regulating their dealings.
		stage was one of transition, the law merchant being administered in the common law courts, but as a body of customs, to be proved as a fact in each individual See also:
		Mansfield (q.v.), under whom it was moulded into the mercantile law of to-day.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /LAP_LEO/LAW_MERCHANT.html (570 words)

	Law School 100 -- Ranking the Best Law Schools in the United States
		Inter-American University of Puerto Rico Faculty of Law
		McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific
		University of the District of Columbia School of Law
	www.lawschool100.com (223 words)

	Ultima Online Philippines : Free UO Shard
		Economy is the most important field in the game that needs to be maintained or it could damage the entire shard big time.
		Merchant Pricing Law will be followed by all Merchant to ensure that UOP Economy will be maintained.
		As of June 1, 2005 UOP Merchant Pricing Law is now to be followed.
	home.att.net /~pinoychat/merchant.html (226 words)

	SSRN-From St. Ives to Cyberspace: The Modern Distortion of the Medieval 'Law Merchant' by Stephen Sachs
		On the traditional view of history, medieval merchants who wandered from fair to fair were not governed by domestic laws, but by their own lex mercatoria, or law merchant.
		This law, which uniformly regulated commerce across Europe, was supposedly produced by an autonomous merchant class, interpreted in private courts, and enforced through private sanctions rather than state coercion.
		Contemporary writers have treated global corporations as descendants of these itinerant traders, urging them to replace conflicting national laws with a law of their own creation.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=830265 (435 words)

	law merchant
		commercial law - commercial law, the laws that govern business transactions, except those relating to the maritime...
		Merchant law in a merchant court: rethinking the Code's search for immanent business norms.
		Law Firm Releases Advisory to Merchants Involved in the Visa Check/MasterMoney Antitrust Litigation.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0915515.html (189 words)

	Common Law, Merchant Law, and Democratic Legislation: Events: The Independent Institute
		The colloquium brought together leading scholars of law and economics from the United States, Europe and Canada to discuss three types of law, common law, merchant law, and democratic legislation.
		The purpose of the colloquium was to try to understand better how laws are created and especially how different institutions may systematically produce law of differing qualities and properties.
		Does the process by which the common law and legislation are created or discovered have an impact on the substantive rules which are created?
	www.independent.org /events/detail.asp?eventID=22 (377 words)

	The Law Merchant
		A Preview of Law School and Legal Reasoning
		A Diary of the First Year at One of America's Largest, Most Prestigious Law Firms
		Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About the American Legal System
	www.chesslaw.com /lawmerchant.htm (123 words)

	AllRefer.com - law merchant (Law: Divisions And Codes) - Encyclopedia
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