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Mercantile law is a body of law that deals with customs and practices of local and international commercial activities. It deals with all business transactions and covers agreements, contracts, copyrights, franchising, insurance, licensing, patents, shipping and transport, trademarks.

Petty cash book - This is used to record petty expenses like postage. cartage. printing and stationery etc in the day to day business activities.
In big organisation, it is not possible to maintain petty expenses for main cashier. In small organisation the number of petty Expenses is less so such a book can be maintained by cashier. Maintaining such a book is not compulsory.
So, maintaining petty cash book is dependent on nature of business.

Lex mercatoria, often referred to as "the Law Merchant" in English, is the body of commercial law used by merchants throughout Europe during the medieval period. It evolved similar to English common law as a system of custom and best practice, which was enforced through a system of merchant courts along the main trade routes. It functioned as the international law of commerce. It is the most important source of Mercantile Law.

Purchase of land from the proceeds of a bank loan would have no impact on owner's capital. The entries to be passed on purchase of land are
Cash A/c                                  Dr.
         To Bank Loan A/c On purchase of Land the following entry will be passed-
Land A/c                                 Dr.
         To Cash A/c
Thus no impact on owner's capital

Prepaid expenses are future expenses that have been paid in advance. It can also be said to be costs that have been paid but have not yet been used up or have not yet expired. The amount of prepaid expenses that have not yet expired are reported on a company's balance sheet as an asset.

The sole purpose of the corporation is to maintain the continuity of an office. Till it is in continuation its all others purposes like maximizing profit, increase in shareholders wealth can be achieved.

Under section 65 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, when an agreement is discovered to  be void or when a contract becomes void, any person who has received any advantage under such agreement or contract is bound to restore it, or to make  good the compensation received if any, to the person from whom he received it.