Commercial Law, the collective name for the branches of law that deal with commerce. These include the laws governing negotiable instruments (such as checks and bills of exchange), sales, suretyship (security for business debts), and parts of maritime law and banking law. Commercial law to a large extent is not governed by common-law principles. Much of it derives from Roman law and the customs of the ancient Greeks and Phoenicians.
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