| Description |
1 online resource (230 p.) |
| Series |
Legal History Library |
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Legal history library.
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| Contents |
Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Bannum in Florentine Bankruptcy Law (Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries) -- 1 Citizenship in the Middle Ages -- 2 The Ban. Etymology and Historical Origin -- 3 Fraudulent Bankruptcy in Florence -- 4 Consequences of a Ban for Bankruptcy -- 5 The Infamia: "Falliti (...) sunt infami et infamissimi" -- 6 Conclusion. The Legal Ban for Bankrupts: A Loss of Identity -- Acknowledgments |
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Chapter 2 "Without regard to foreignness": The Reciprocal Equal Treatment of Foreign Creditors in the Early Modern German Territories -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Historiography -- 3 Foreignness in Medieval Trade -- 4 Early Modern Equality -- 5 The Adoption of Reciprocal Equal Treatment Clauses in German Insolvency Laws -- 6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 3 Modifying Procedural Practices, Shaping Economic Identities: The Middle Class and Negotiated Debt Adjustment in Commercial Courts in Belgium (1883-1914) -- 1 Legal History and the Study of the Middle Class in Belgium |
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2 Insolvency Proceedings in Order to Prevent Failures -- 3 A Commercial Legislation for Belgian Merchants -- 4 Antwerp Middle Class Members in Financial Distress 1883-1914 -- 5 The Commercial Court's Lenient Attitude towards the Middle Class -- 6 Negotiated Debt Adjustment -- 7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 4 Citizenship in Early Modern Amsterdam: An Artisanal Identity? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Amsterdam Citizenship -- 3 Guilds -- 4 Legal Institutions -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments |
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Chapter 5 The Pareres of the Governors of the Frankfurt Exchange: Legal Opinions of Frankfurt Merchants in the Eighteenth Century -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Pareres -- 3 The Governors of the Frankfurt Exchange -- 4 Analysis of the Frankfurt Pareres -- 5 Functions of the Pareres -- 6 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 6 Identity, Conflict and Commercial Law: Legal Strategies of Castilian Merchants in the Low Countries (Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Legal System of the Low Countries -- 3 The Castilian Community in the Low Countries -- 4 Intra-Castilian Conflicts |
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5 Litigation against Other (Foreign) Merchants -- 6 The Secret Ingredient: Lobbying -- 7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 7 The Learning Market in Early Modern Antwerp (Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries): Circulation of Knowledge within the Context of Private Partnership Contracts -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Economic Development and Challenges -- 3 Learning and Coping Strategies -- 3 Openness and Secrecy of Company's Production Methods -- 4 Relationship between the Merchant Community and Guilds -- 6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Law -- Europe -- History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cordes, Albrecht
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Dauchy, Serge
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Gialdroni, Stefania
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Pihlajamäki, Heikki
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| ISBN |
9789004472860 |
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900447286X |
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