the law of a country as applied to any kind of business activity. It includes among its many branches: the law of agency, banking and bankruptcy, company and partnership law, the law of contracts, import and export, insurance copyrights, designs, patents and trademarks, and the sale of goods., a phrase used to designate the whole body of substantive jurisprudence (e.g. Uniform Commercial Code; Truth in Lending Act) applicable to the rights, intercourse, and relations of persons engaged in commerce, trade, or mercantile pursuits, mercantile law - an expression substantially equivalent to commercial law. It designates the system of rules, customs, and usages generally recognized and adopted by merchants and traders, and which, either in its simplicity or as modified by common law or statutes, constitutes the law for the regulation of their transactions and the solution of their controversies., eraõiguslike normide kogum, mis korraldab seaduse poolt kaubanduslikuks käibeks tunnistatud toiminguid