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What's the difference between commercial and corporate law?

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What's the difference between commercial and corporate law?

Postby tiernan » Thu May 31, 2012 4:05 pm

Plz give a simple definition
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What's the difference between commercial and corporate law?

Postby josephus » Thu May 31, 2012 4:10 pm

You'll never learn if you don't do it yourself.
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What's the difference between commercial and corporate law?

Postby avikar76 » Thu May 31, 2012 4:21 pm

Commercial law is business law. Practice of law pertaining to businesses, which includes corporations.

Think of corporate law as a speciality. Basically, its commercial law that only includes legal practice dealing with corporations.

@Biscuit Giraffe answers like that is why you are only level 1.
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What's the difference between commercial and corporate law?

Postby siwili » Thu May 31, 2012 4:26 pm

Commercial law is the law governing commercial transactions. It extends a bit beyond that (these are not hard-and-fast definitions or fields by any means) and could conceivably include parts of many other fields that are indirectly related to the buying and selling of goods.

Corporate law is the body of law dealing with corporations. It includes bits and pieces from dozens of different fields, and would include some aspects of commercial law.
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