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Mercators chart

See under Chart and see Mercators projection under Projection...

Mercat

Mercat [fr. mercatus, Lat.], market; trade....

Clough

Clough, a valley.-Domesday. Also an allowance of two pounds in every hundred-weight for the turn of the scale, on buying goods wholesale by weight, Lex Mercat. See ALLOWANCE....

Market [anciently written mercat, fr. mercatus, Lat.], a public time and place of buying and selling; also purchase and sale. It differs from the forum, or market of antiquity, which was a public market-place on one side only, the other sides being occupied by temples, theatres, etc.A market can only be set up by virtue of a royal grant, or by long and immemorial usage, which presupposes a grant.See FAIRS; and (English) Public Health Act, 1875, s. 167, the Public Health Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 6), and the Markets and Fairs Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 14); (English) Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Acts, 1886 to 1926.As to disturbance of market, see Goldsmid v. Great Eastern Railway Co., (1884) 9 App Cas 927; A.G. v. Horner (No. 2), (1913) 2 Ch 140. In City of London Fruit Corporation v. Lyons, Sons & Co. Ltd., 1936 Ch 78, it was held that any member of the public has a right of access to a franchise market on payment of tolls and observance of bye-laws for the purpose of ...

Reprisal

Reprisal, the taking one thing in satisfaction for another. Reprisals are used between nation and nation, in order to do themselves justice, when they cannot otherwise obtain it. If a nation has taken possession of what belongs to another-if she refuses to pay a debt, to repair an injury, or to give adequate satisfaction for it-the latter seizes something belonging to the former, and applies it to her own advantage, unless she obtains payment of what is due to her, together with interest and damages, or may keep it as a pledge until she has received ample satisfaction. For the latter it is rather a stoppage or a seizure than reprisals, but they are frequently confounded in common language, Vattel, by Chit. 283. Reprisals are either ordinary, as arresting and taking the goods of merchant-strangers within the realm, or extra-ordinary, as satisfaction out of the realm, and are under the Great Seal, Lex Mercat. 120. See also RECAPTION; CAPIAS IN WITHERNAM; LETTERS OF MARQUE.The use of forc...

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