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Antonella Alimento and Koen Stapelbroek (eds.),
This collection of essays has a double programme. First, it seeks to explore the relevance, contents and perception of commercial treaties in the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Secondly, it purports to bridge different approaches towards the theme and in so doing to expand the understanding of commercial treaties. The rich introduction, written by the volume’s editors, provides an overview of the literature thus far
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In 1516 and 1518, the Antwerp City Council introduced a collective system of debt recovery, which broke with the tradition of priority for the first seizing claimant. This view resulted in a legal framework, which was based on the concept of publicly known insolvency. Because of the vague legal definitions in the 1582 and 1608 customary law compilations, the position of pursuing creditors was strengthened. Although these rules weren't successful, they demonstrate an early intention to draw the line between criminal bankruptcy, persisting insolvency and temporary payment problems.
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The 1582 Antwerp costuymen influenced Amsterdam law during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although the Antwerp law has often been considered as an applicable law in the Amstel city, its role was more limited. At the end of the sixteenth century and during the first half of the seventeenth century, it was used as a common and subsidiary applicable law for certain mercantile issues. Later on, as the Amsterdam legislator issued ordinances on these themes, this function declined. Yet, references to the Antwerp law book were still common in the eighteenth century, although they were more a consequence of a cultural attraction than of an actual application of the Brabant law book.
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Projects and charters of company statutes that were drafted in early seventeenth-century Sweden were often written by or in close cooperation with merchants; they contain elements selected from Dutch and English texts and practices. This points to legal borrowing, but also, the plans and charters built on ideas of corporate governance that had not been practiced elsewhere. In that regard, Swedish sources are vital for understanding this vibrant initial phase of the history of corporate governance. Moreover, the chapter demonstrates that the variables that determined which foreign characteristics of organization were chosen could be, and often were, cultural and political, rather than economic.
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Projects and charters of company statutes that were drafted in early seventeenth-century Sweden were often written by or in close cooperation with merchants; they contain elements selected from Dutch and English texts and practices. This points to legal borrowing, but also, the plans and charters built on ideas of corporate governance that had not been practiced elsewhere. In that regard, Swedish sources are vital for understanding this vibrant initial phase of the history of corporate governance. Moreover, the chapter demonstrates that the variables that determined which foreign characteristics of organization were chosen could be, and often were, cultural and political, rather than economic.