The law favors public commerce.

Explanation

Free exchange among men is favored by the law — restrictions on trade are disfavored and narrowly construed.

Where this applies

• The state is imposing burdensome regulations that make it nearly impossible to sell goods at a farmer's market.
• A new licensing requirement is restricting free trade between willing buyers and sellers.

See also

• 5.5.1 Let the buyer beware; the buyer ought not to be ignorant that he is purchasing the rights of another.
• 12.12.1 Commerce ought to be common, and not to be converted into a monopoly and the private gain of a few.