TRADER. One who makes it his business to buy merchandise, or goods and chattels, and to sell the same for the purpose of making a profit. The quantum of dealing is immaterial, when an intention to deal generally exists. 3 Stark. 56; 2 Carr. & P. 135; 1 Term, 572.
2. Questions as to who is a trader most frequently arise under the bankrupt laws; and the most difficult among them are those cases where the party follows a business which is not that of 'huying and selling principally, but in which he is occasionally engaged m purchases and sales.
A farmer who, in addition to his usual business, occasionally buys a horse uot cal culated for his usual occupation, and sells him again to make a profit, and who in the course of tvvo years had so bought and sold five or six horses, two of which had been sold, after he had bought them, for the sake of a guinea profit, was beld to be a trader. 1 Term, 537, n.; 1 Price, Exch. 20. Another farmer, who bought a large quantity of pota toes, not to be used on his farm, but merely to sell again for a profit, was also declared to be a trader. 1 Strange, 513. See 7 Taunt.
409; 5 Bos. & P. 78; 11 East, 274.
3. A butcher who kills only such cattle as he has reared himself is not a trader, but if he buy them and kill and sell them with a view to profit, he is a trader. 4 Burr. 21, 47. See 2 Rose, Bank. 38; 3 Campb. 233; Cooke, Bank. Law, 48, 73 ; 2 Wile. Ch. 169; 1 Atk. Ch. 128; Cowp. 745.
A brickmaker who follows the business for the purpose of enjoying the profits of his real estate merely is not a trader ; but when he buys the earth by the load or other wise, and manufactures it into bricks and sells them with a view to profit, he is a trader. Cooke, Bank. Law, 52, 63 ; 7 East, 442 ; 3 Carr. & P. 500; Mood. & M. 263; 2 Rose, Bank. 422; 2 Glyn & J. 183 ; 1 Brown, Ch. 173.
For further examples the reader is referred to 4 Mann. & R. 486 ; 9 Barnew. & C. 577; 1 Term, 34; 1 Rose, Bank, 316 ; 2 Taunt. 178; 2 Marsh. 236; 3 Moore & S: 761; 10 Bingh; 292; Peake, 76 ; 1 Ventr. 270 ; 3 Brod. & B. 2; 6 Moore, 56.