mercantile establishment

mercantile establishment
Any place where goods, wares, and merchandise are offered for sale. Anno: 16 ALR 542. Within the meaning of statutes regulating or limiting hours of labor or otherwise restricting the employment of women and children:–a place where the buying and selling of articles of merchandise are conducted as an employment. 31 Am J Rev ed Lab § 784.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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