Commerce
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Commerce
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Meaning of Commerce
A term of the widest import comprehending intercourse for the purpose of trade in any and all its forms. It denotes the exchange of merchandise on a large scale between different places or communities. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. It is not traffic alone, although the idea of traffic is inherent in the word commerce. See Blumenstock Bros. Advertising Agency v Curtis Pub. Co., 40 S. Ct. 385,252 U.S. 436, 64 L.Ed. 649. , Also see Gibbons v Ogden, 22 U.S. (9 Wheat.) 1, 6 L.Ed.23.The power to regulate commerce has been conferred by the federal constitution on the Congress and such power may be exercised to its utmost extent, acknowledging no limitations other than those pre-scribed by the Constitution. interstate commerce is the trading and trafficking in commodities between and amongst citizens of different states; the transporting by common carriers of passengers and property of one state into another state; and the selling and buying of commodity or commodities, by a citizen of one state to a citizen of another state, which commodity is to be transported from the state of the seller to the state of the buyer or to another state and there resold or used as may serve the purpose of the buyer. See Howard v Illinois Cent. R. Co., 148 F. 997.
Commerce Alternative Definition
The exchange of property, including the usual agencies of communication and transportation to effect the exchange, and extending to the means employed to move the property involved and the persons making the contract. 223 111. 590. The various agreements which have for their object facilitating the exchange of the products of the earth or the industry of man, with an intent to realize a profit. Pardessus, Dr. Com. note 1. Any reciprocal agreements between two persons, by which one delivers to the other a thing, which the latter accepts, and for which he pays a consideration. If the consideration be money, it is called a "sale;" if any other thing than money, it is called "exchange" or "barter." Domat, Dr. Pub. liv. 1, tit. 7, § 1, note 2. Congress has power, by the constitution, to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes. 1 Kent, Comm. 431; Story, Const. § 1052 et seq. The sense in which the word "commerce" is used in the constitution seems not only to include traffic, but intercourse and , navigation ( Story, Const. § 1057; 9 Wheat. [U.S.] 190, 191, 215, 229; 12 Wheat. [U, S.] 419; 102 U.S. 691; 4 Biss. [U.S.] 156; 31 Iowa, 187), but only such intercourse as consists in trade or traffic (1 Stew. & P. [Ala.] 327).
Synonyms of Commerce
noun
interstate commerce
bargaining
barter
bartering
business
business affairs
business deals
business intercourse
business transactions
buying and selling
chaffering
commercial intercourse
commercium
dealing
exchange
fiscal exchange
industry
industry and trade
interchange
interchange of commodities
interchange of goods
intercourse
marketing
mercantile business
mercantile relations
mercantilism
mercatura
merchandising
merchantry
monetary exchange
multilateral trade
negotia
negotiation
private enterprise
production and distribution
reciprocal trade
system of exchanges
trade
trading
traffic
traffic of commodities
transportation of commodities
transportation of goods
Associated Concepts: affect commerce
affect interstate commerce
arising under a law regulating commerce
commerce among the several states
commerce clause
commerce power
commerce with foreign nations
commercial code
commercial paper
industry affecting commerce
international commerce
intrastate commerce
law regulating commerce
navigation and commerce
regulate commerce
restraint of commerceforeign phrases: Commercium jure gentium commune esse debet
et non in monopolium et privatum paucorum quaestum convertendum
Commerce
by the law of nations
ought to be common
and not converted into monopoly and the private gain of a few persons
Jus accrescendi inter mercatores
pro beneficio commercii
locum non habet
The right of survivorship does not exist between merchants for the benefit of commerce
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Commerce in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims
Latin commercium. In its simplest signification, an exchange of goods; but in the advancement of society, labor, transportation, itelligence, care and various mediums of exchange, become commodities and enter into commerce. Gibbens v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1, 229 (1824), Marshall, Chief Justice. The interchange or mutual change of goods, productions, or property of any kind, between nations or individuals. People v. Raymond, 84 Cal. 497 (1868).
Note: This legal definition of Commerce in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.
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Commerce in Global Commerce Policy
In this regard, a definition of this issue is as follows: usually, but by no means exclusively, refers to activities related to the production, sale and distribution of goods and services within the internal market. See also trade.[1]
Commercein the wold Encyclopedia
For an introductory overview on international trade policy, see this entry.
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Dictionary of Trade Policy, "Commerce" entry (OAS)
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