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This law was first created in 1964. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 219 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1964 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2004, chapter 200<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":73102,"section_number":"8.2-103","catch_line":"Definitions and index of definitions","order_by":null,"url":"\/8.2-103\/"},{"id":86552,"section_number":"8.2A-103","catch_line":"Definitions and index of definitions","order_by":null,"url":"\/8.2A-103\/"},{"id":58431,"section_number":"8.9A-102","catch_line":"Definitions and index of definitions","order_by":null,"url":"\/8.9A-102\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":76676,"section_number":"8.2-707","catch_line":"\"Person in the position of a seller.\"","order_by":null,"url":"\/8.2-707\/"}],"permalink":{"id":281947,"object_type":"law","relational_id":70757,"identifier":"8.2-104","token":"8.2\/1\/8.2-104","url":"\/8.2-104\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/8.2-104\/","token":"8.2\/1\/8.2-104","dublin_core":{"Title":"Definitions: “Merchant”; “financing agency”; “between merchants.”","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 8.2-104","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

1.<\/span> “Merchant<\/span>” means a person who deals in goods of the kind or otherwise by his occupation holds himself out as having knowledge or skill peculiar to the practices or goods involved in the transaction or to whom such knowledge or skill may be attributed by his employment of an agent or broker or other intermediary who by his occupation holds himself out as having such knowledge or skill. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

2.<\/span> “Financing agency<\/span>” means a bank, finance company or other person who in the ordinary course of business makes advances against goods or documents of title or who by arrangement with either the seller or the buyer intervenes in ordinary course to make or collect payment due or claimed under the contract<\/span> for sale, as by purchasing or paying the seller’s draft or making advances against it or by merely taking it for collection whether or not documents of title accompany or are associated with the draft. “Financing agency<\/span>” includes also a bank or other person who similarly intervenes between persons who are in the position of seller and buyer in respect to the goods (§ 8.2-707<\/a>). <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

3.<\/span> “Between merchants<\/span>” means in any transaction with respect to which both parties are chargeable with the knowledge or skill of merchants. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDEFINITIONS: “MERCHANT”; “FINANCING AGENCY”;\n“BETWEEN MERCHANTS.” (\u00a7 8.2-104)\n\n1. “Merchant” means a person who deals in goods of the kind or\notherwise by his occupation holds himself out as having knowledge or skill\npeculiar to the practices or goods involved in the transaction or to whom such\nknowledge or skill may be attributed by his employment of an agent or broker or\nother intermediary who by his occupation holds himself out as having such\nknowledge or skill.\n\n2. “Financing agency” means a bank, finance company or other person\nwho in the ordinary course of business makes advances against goods or documents\nof title or who by arrangement with either the seller or the buyer intervenes in\nordinary course to make or collect payment due or claimed under the contract for\nsale, as by purchasing or paying the seller’s draft or making advances\nagainst it or by merely taking it for collection whether or not documents of\ntitle accompany or are associated with the draft. “Financing agency”\nincludes also a bank or other person who similarly intervenes between persons\nwho are in the position of seller and buyer in respect to the goods (§\n8.2-707).\n\n3. “Between merchants” means in any transaction with respect to\nwhich both parties are chargeable with the knowledge or skill of merchants.\n\nHISTORY: 1964, c. 219; 2004, c. 200.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}