From lex mercatoria to commercial law
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From lex mercatoria to commercial law
Editors: Piergiovanni, Vito
Comparative Studies in Continental and Anglo-American Legal History, Vol. 24
(2005)
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The argument of lex mercatoria - because of its important implications mainly in the international and commercial field of great interest to the jurist of civil law - is also fundamental to the historian of law. In fact, it can be considered both as a witness of new commercial legal institutions risen from the practice of affairs and defined by an international juridical science, and as a moment of crisis of the consolidated system since the first codes of the juridical sources. The authors of the articles collected in the present volume are historians of law of different cultural background and provenience. The publication at issue was conceived as an almost obligatory intervention in a debate which rather scantily considers epistemology as well as disciplinary boundaries.Each single study highlights a different aspect of the lex mercatoria and its relationship to the ius commune, studying both under different perspectives. The authors explore well-founded historical evidence across a broad chronological period from the Middle Ages until the nineteenth century, acrossing institutional settings differing both politically and operationally.The historical problem of the lex mercatoria is mainly dealt with from the point of view of the sources. The volume collects general studies in relation to the problem of the existence of the lex mercatoria and more specific items - many of them dedicated to the maritime law. Thus different keys of interpretation are given concerning the development of the European commercial law.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Table of Contents | 5 | ||
| VITO PIERGIOVANNI: Introduction | 7 | ||
| DANIEL R. COQUILLETTE: „Mourning Venice and Genoa“: Joseph Story, Legal Education, and the Lex Mercatoria | 11 | ||
| I. Story’s Youth in Salem | 12 | ||
| II. Story at Harvard Law School | 14 | ||
| III. Story and the Lex Mercatoria | 26 | ||
| IV. Story’s Judicial Opinions | 33 | ||
| V. Story’s Contemporaries | 38 | ||
| VI. Conclusion | 41 | ||
| Appendix I | 43 | ||
| Law Institute of Harvard University „Course of Study“ | 43 | ||
| Appendix II | 47 | ||
| Joseph Story’s Academie Career (1815–1845) | 47 | ||
| Appendix III | 48 | ||
| David Hoffman’s Required Cases for the Lex Mercatoria Curriculum (2d ed. 1836) | 48 | ||
| ALBRECHT CORDES: The search for a medieval Lex mercatoria | 53 | ||
| CHARLES DONAHUE, JR.: Benvenuto Stracca’s De Mercatura: Was There a Lex mercatoria in Sixteenth-Century Italy? | 69 | ||
| I. Introduction | 69 | ||
| II. Stracca’s De Mercatura | 78 | ||
| III. Equity in the Courts of Merchants | 84 | ||
| IV. The Exceptio procuratoria | 89 | ||
| V. The Exceptio excussionis | 98 | ||
| VI. Conclusion | 106 | ||
| Appendix 1. | 115 | ||
| Outline of Stracca’s De Mercatura | 115 | ||
| Appendix 2. | 117 | ||
| Contents of Stracca’s De Mercatura | 117 | ||
| RICCARDO FERRANTE: Codification and Lex mercatoria: the maritime law of the second book of the Code de commerce (1808) | 121 | ||
| MAURA FORTUNATI: The fairs between lex mercatoria and ius mercatorum | 143 | ||
| KNUT WOLFGANG NÖRR UND KERSTIN SCHLECHT: Zur Entwicklung der Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit in Deutschland: Gesetze und Entwürfe des 19. Jahrhunderts | 165 | ||
| I. Lex Mercatoria und Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit: zur Einführung in das Thema | 165 | ||
| II. Die Bedeutung des Schiedsgerichts im zeitlichen Wandel | 166 | ||
| III. Überblick über die regelungsbedürftigen Themen | 169 | ||
| IV. Bindung des Schiedsrichters an die staatlichen Gesetze | 171 | ||
| V. Staatliche Kontrolle von Schiedssprüchen: ordentliche Rechtsbehelfe | 173 | ||
| VI. Staatliche Kontrolle von Schiedssprüchen: außerordentliche Rechtsbehelfe | 175 | ||
| VII. Gesetzgebung in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts: Politik oder reine Pragmatik? | 181 | ||
| ANTONIO PADOA-SCHIOPPA: The Genoese commenda and implicita in a Discursus by Casaregis | 183 | ||
| VITO PIERGIOVANNI: Genoese Civil Rota and mercantile customary law | 191 | ||
| I. Preamble | 191 | ||
| II. Genoa’s medieval mercantile Courts and the birth of the Civil Rota in 1528 | 191 | ||
| III. The ‘Decisiones de mercatura’ and the sources of Genoese law applicable to merchants: the ‘regulae Rotae’ | 192 | ||
| IV. Stylus et consuetudo mercatoria | 196 | ||
| V. ‘Communis stylus mercatorum’ | 198 | ||
| VI. The exchange contract, trial rules and the insurance contract | 198 | ||
| VII. The richness and organizational variety of the medieval and modern mercantile world | 201 | ||
| VIII. Historiography and sources of the lex mercatoria in the past and the future | 203 | ||
| JAMES W. SHEPHARD: The Rôles d’Oléron: A lex mercatoria of the Sea? | 207 | ||
| I. What is the Rôles d’Oléron | 208 | ||
| 1. The Manuscripts | 209 | ||
| 2. The Subject Matter | 212 | ||
| a) The Original Version | 213 | ||
| b) The Brittany Version | 215 | ||
| c) The Black Book Version | 215 | ||
| II. The Origins of the Rôles d’Oléron | 217 | ||
| 1. The Historiography | 217 | ||
| 2. The Background Conditions | 221 | ||
| a) The Wine Trade | 221 | ||
| aa) The Geographical Limits | 221 | ||
| bb) Historical Development of the Wine Trade | 230 | ||
| b) The Ship | 234 | ||
| 3. When, Where, Why and by Whom | 238 | ||
| a) When | 238 | ||
| b) Where | 240 | ||
| c) Why and by Whom | 243 | ||
| III. Conclusion | 249 | ||
| ALAIN WIJFFELS: Business Relations Between Merchants in Sixteenth-Century Belgian Practice-Orientated Civil Law Literature | 255 | ||
| I. The ius commune as the ‘operating system’ for legal arguments | 261 | ||
| II. The qualification of merchants’ law as ius proprium | 264 | ||
| III. Aequitas mercatoria | 276 | ||
| IV. Policy considerations | 283 | ||
| Conclusion | 289 |