Custom of merchants

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a system or code of customs by which affairs of commerce are regulated.

See also: Custom

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

References in periodicals archive

Here, Maimonides maximized the opening provided by the fact that Talmudic and post-Talmudic authorities frequently invoke the common business practices as valid and normative (29-36: Minhag ha-Soharim, "The Custom of Merchants").

Maimonides and the Merchants: Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World

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