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Sept 9 Retail Trade Law Questions
Sept 9 Retail Trade Law Questions
Sept 9 Retail Trade Law Questions
1. What is retail?
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THELAW.COM LAW DICTIONARY & BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY 2ND ED.
To sell by small parcels, and pot in the gross. To sell in small quantities. Retailer of merchandise.
A merchant who buys, articles in gross or merchandise in large quantities, and sells the same by
single articles or in small quantities.
Under the 1987 Philippine Constitution, Article IV, Section 1, it states that:
1. Filipino by birth
1. Jus soli (right of soil) which is the legal principle that a
person’s nationality at birth is determined by the place of
birth (e.g. the territory of a given state)
2. Jus sanguinis (right of blood) which is the legal principle
that, at birth, an individual acquires the nationality of
his/her natural parent/s. The Philippine adheres to this
principle.
2. Filipino by naturalization which is the judicial act of adopting a
foreigner and clothing him with the privileges of a native-born
citizen. It implies the renunciation of a former nationality and the
fact of entrance into a similar relation towards a new body politic
(2Am.Jur.561,par.188).