ABSTRACT
The paper discusses the circumstances in which eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English courts would admit evidence of mercantile usage as an aid to resolving disputes which turned on the construction of contracts and the implication of terms.
Mitchell, Charles, Mercantile Usage, Construction of Contracts and the Implication of Terms, 1750-1850 (June 1, 2020) in Charles Mitchell and Stephen Watterson (eds), The World of Maritime and Commercial Law: Essays in Honour of Francis Rose (Hart, 2020).
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