Commercial law covers all the rules regulating commercial affairs, trading persons and businesses. Within the scope of commercial law, issues such as commercial enterprise, merchant, titles, business names, prevention of unfair competition, trade registries, current calculations are mentioned. Cases concerning commercial law are handled by the Commercial Courts of First Instance, if any, and by the Civil Courts of First Instance where these courts are not available.
Commercial enterprise law is a sub-discipline of commercial law. It regulates the businesses that may be established by merchants, non-merchant real or legal persons, their rules and their relations with each other. The most important concepts in this field are merchant and commercial enterprises. Merchant is defined as a person who operates a commercial enterprise in whole or in part on his own behalf and on his own account in real persons. Commercial enterprise, on the other hand, refers to enterprises established for the purpose of making profit. In order for the enterprise to be considered a commercial enterprise, the law stipulates some conditions. These conditions are as follows:
- Must be profit-oriented
- The tradesman must go beyond the limits of his activity
- Must operate continuously
- Must be independent
Another title in this field can be determined as e-commerce. E-commerce can basically be called as the transfer of shopping to a virtual market. It entered our lives with the development of the Internet and experienced its most popular time with the Covid epidemic. However, security problems have increased with the transfer of shopping to the virtual environment. The field that regulates the problems arising from the nature of e-commerce, sales relations, security measures and related sanctions is called e-commerce law.