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Commerce

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Commerce [fr. commutatio mercium, Lat.], the intercourse of nations in each other's produce and manufactures, in which the superfluities of one are given for those of another, and then re-exchanged with other nations for mutual wants. Commerce relates to our dealings with foreign nations, colonies, etc.; trade, to mutual dealings at home, See McCull. Com. Dict.

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