merchantable quality Quick reference
A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (2 ed.)
... quality An implied condition now replaced by satisfactory quality...
merchantable quality Quick reference
A Dictionary of Law (10 ed.)
... quality An implied condition now replaced in the UK by satisfactory quality , although the term continues to be used in the...
merchantable quality Reference library
Australian Law Dictionary (3 ed.)
...merchantable quality A condition implied by statute in all sales of goods bought by description. May be expressly excluded by contract or if the goods were examined by the buyer (see TPA s 71; now CCA Schedule 2 ACL Ch 3 Part 3-2 s 54, which has replaced the common law term ‘merchantable quality’ with the term ‘acceptable quality’; state Sale of Goods Acts; and Vienna Convention on International Sale of Goods Art 35, which overrides local Acts). ‘Merchantable quality’ means more than ‘suitability for sale’. It includes condition or quality, defined in terms...
merchantable quality Quick reference
A Dictionary of Business and Management (6 ed.)
... quality An implied condition respecting the state of goods sold in the course of business. Such goods should be as fit for their ordinary purpose as it is reasonable to expect, taking into account any description applied to them, the price (if relevant), and all the other relevant circumstances. The condition does not apply with regard to defects specifically drawn to the buyer’s attention or defects that should have been noticed in an examination of the goods before the contract was...
merchantable quality
29 The History of the Book in Modern Greece, c.1453–2000 Reference library
Alexis Politis
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...end, the cultural landscape in Ottoman-occupied Greece resembled Europe’s: schools proliferated, scientific works were translated, and a small number of people travelled or studied in Europe. This coincided with significant social changes and incipient revolution. As the new merchant class increased in numbers and gained in social power, Rhigas Velestinlis published *pamphlets (Vienna, 1797 ) calling for a national uprising. These changes are reflected in book production. In the first two decades of the 19 th century, the number of books reached...
South Asian Genealogy Quick reference
Abi Husainy
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...put more people on the move in the 18th and 19th centuries, Indian seamen, known as Lascars, toiled for the British merchant navy, and nannies, known as ayahs, were employed by East India Company elites and British officials. Indian royal families, including nawabs and rajas, and diplomats visited Britain for pleasure or to submit petitions on legal matters to the Crown, politicians came to argue for Indian independence, and merchants travelled to London on business. Anglo‐Indians sometimes settled in their ancestors’ country, others arrived as scholars...
Political Economy Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...had been made more durable as a result of the unintended by-products of the shift in consumption patterns by feudal land-owners—those with legal entitlement to the agrarian social surplus. As their expenditure shifted towards the manufactured luxuries produced or imported by merchants living in towns, and away from those military dependants and menial servants that had given them status and power, so their capacity to challenge monarchs had been undermined. They became less able to disrupt those civil liberties that could best be achieved through the...
27 The History of the Book in the Iberian Peninsula Reference library
María Luisa López-Vidriero
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...in Catalonia, Venetians such as the bookseller Francesco de Moris represented and acted on behalf of a wide network of booksellers from Venice and from Genoa; the latter were also active in the paper trade. In Valencia, Giovanni Battista Riquelme and Lorenzo Ganoto, both merchants from Savona, financed the Suma de todas las crónicas del mundo (printed by Gorge Costilla in 1510 ) and the Cancionero General (printed by Christoph Kaufmann in 1511 ). In Castile, Francesco Dada and Giovanni Tomasso Favario financed Andrés de Burgos in 1505 to print...
28 The History of the Book in Italy Reference library
Neil Harris
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...between Johannes Vurster, who in 1473 introduced printing at Modena, and a local paper merchant, Cecchino Morano, who saw in it a chance to expand his business. The two turned out several large books aimed at nearby *Bologna University , but failed to find a market. In 1476 , after being sued by his partner and narrowly escaping imprisonment, Vurster fled town, leaving behind him a shop full of unsold volumes (Balsamo). Although supporting evidence of this quality is generally lacking, it is plausible that many such early ventures regularly teetered on...
Music Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...Mozart's music during the 1800s, and City enthusiasts were developing a reputation for allegiance to high musical values and to the Viennese classics. But it was not until 1818 that a subscription series was tentatively established in the city, initiated by a group of merchants, bankers, and professionals: and even here exclusiveness remained, for those engaged in retail (however respectably) could not be admitted. Meanwhile individual musicians were developing more commercial awareness and aptitude. A benefit concert could bring great profits, if one...
12 The Economics of Print Reference library
Alexis Weedon
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...of book production, which was limited to London. The technical importance of printing and its economic advantage over hand copying gradually gave printers status and influence within the guild. However, printing increased the demand for paper which was imported by wealthy merchants— *stationers —who were effectively the capitalists of the trade and held greatest sway within the Company. In 1557 , the *Stationers’ Company was granted a Royal Charter giving it corporate legal status and the right to self-regulation. The Company gained powers to regulate ...
Timon of Athens Reference library
Michael Dobson, Will Sharpe, and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...’s dialogue Timon misanthropus (either directly or indirectly, perhaps through the anonymous Timon play), which supplies Timon’s discovery of gold during his self-imposed exile in the woods and its consequences. Synopsis: 1.1 Outside the rich Timon’s house a jeweller, a merchant, a mercer, a poet, and a painter cluster in hopes of his patronage, and he is visited by senators; the Poet, discussing all this with the Painter, has composed an allegory warning Timon that Fortune is fickle. Timon, arriving, speaks courteously to all his suitors, pays his...
20a The History of the Book in Britain, c.1475–1800 Reference library
Andrew Murphy
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...7 Conclusion 1 Origins The history of the book in Britain begins, in fact, on the Continent. In 1471 , the Kent-born merchant *Caxton travelled from Bruges to Cologne, where he formed a partnership with the printer and *punchcutter Johannes Veldener . Having mastered the art of printing, Caxton returned to Bruges in the following year, probably accompanied by Veldener and by an assistant, de *Worde . At Bruges, the merchant set up a press and issued the first English-language printed book, the Histories of Troy ( 1473/4 ), his own translation...
German Family Names Reference library
Edda Gentry
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...colonies. About 2,000 Catholics were turned back before the restrictions against Catholic immigration were lifted sometime later. Most of the above-mentioned immigrants, as well as those who arrived up to the middle of the 19th century were craftsmen, farmers, laborers, or merchants, and they had, as a result, strong representation in manufacturing, agriculture, and industry as well as in the mechanical trades and mining. The next group of immigrants stands out for very different reasons, namely the aims and ideals they hoped to realize in the New World....
English, Scottish, and Anglo-Irish Family Names Reference library
Peter McClure and Patrick Hanks
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...by marriage, inheritance, patronal gift, and purchase, but also by commerce. Merchants who set up business in various towns were commonly known by a habitational name derived from one or more of the borough towns in England and Scotland or in other countries in which they had property. Major foreign commercial centers such as Bruges in Flanders and Cologne in Germany are probably the source of at least some of the modern families named bridges and cullen . Wealthier merchants would have businesses in a string of market towns and, in order to get away from...
42 The History of the Book in Japan Reference library
P. F. Kornicki
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...Kyoto, between 1599 and 1610 . Sagabon production in 1608: Ise monogatari (The Tales of Ise). The books were the product of a collaboration between the merchant connoisseur Suminokura Soan and the artist and calligrapher Hon’ami Kōetsu. © The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved (Or. 64.c.36) The calligraphy and artistic direction were provided by the arbiter of taste Hon’ami Kōetsu; a merchant intellectual, Suminokura Soan ( 1571–1632 ), brought the organizational skills. Together they printed mostly Japanese texts, such as the Ise monogatari ...
23 The History of the Book in the Low Countries Reference library
Paul Hoftijzer
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...prevented excessive monopolies and market protection. In most cities, restrictive guilds of printers and booksellers did not come into existence until the second half of the 17 th century, and their rules were not on the whole very strict. Following in the wake of other merchants, booksellers developed extensive international networks for the distribution of their books. They regularly visited the semi-annual *book fairs at *Frankfurt and later at *Leipzig in order to exchange their latest publications, but also to act as middlemen for colleagues...
Women Local and Family Historians Quick reference
Joan Thirsk
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...local history. Lucy Toulmin Smith edited The Itinerary of John Leland ( 1906 ), Mary Bateson , Records of the Borough of Leicester ( 1899 ) and Cambridge Guild Records ( 1903 ), and Maud Sellers , a York Memorandum Book ( 1912 ) and manuscripts of The York Mercers and Merchant Adventurers, 1356–1917 ( 1918 ). Other women, increasingly after 1900 , became editors of single volumes for local record societies (see E. L. C. Mullins , Texts and Calendars: An Analytical Guide to Serial Publications (Royal Historical Society, 1958) . Some women were...
35 The Slavonic Book in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus Reference library
Christine Thomas
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...was not the sole religion. However, printing with Cyrillic type in those lands was influenced by the wish of the Ukrainian and Belarusian Orthodox to keep their religion alive. Although most printers were itinerant, some printers and Orthodox merchants had their own presses. Of the presses financed by merchants, the most famous was that of the Mamonich family in Vilnius. Other presses were set up by magnates, such as the hetman Hryhorii Chodkiewicz and Prince Vasyl Kostiatyn of Ostrih (Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski). At the *Ostrih (Ostrog) Press on...
