The company in law and practice : : did size matter? (Middle Ages - nineteenth century) / / edited by D. De Ruysscher [and three others].

This volume brings together nine chapters by specialist legal historians that address the topic of the scale and size of companies, in both legal and economic history. The bundled texts cover different periods, from the Middle Ages, the Early Modern Period, to the nineteenth century. They analyse th...

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Superior document:Legal History Library, Volume 23
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Legal history library ; Volume 23.
Legal history library. Studies in the history of private law ; Volume 12.
Physical Description:1 online resource (223 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter / D. De ruysscher , A. Cordes , S. Dauchy and H. Pihlajamäki
  • Introduction / Dave De ruysscher , Albrecht Cordes , Serge Dauchy and Heikki Pihlajamäki
  • What is a Small Firm? Some Indications from the Business Organization of Late Medieval German Merchants / Ulla Kypta
  • Making Size Matter Less: Italian Firms and Merchant Guilds in Late Medieval Bruges / Bart Lambert
  • Late Scholasticism and Commercial Partnership: Persons and Capitals in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Luisa Brunori
  • Legal Structure of Early Enterprises—from Commenda-like Arrangements to Chartered Joint-Stock Companies (Early Modern Period) / Anja Amend-Traut
  • Delving for Diversity in Early Modern Company Law: Mining Companies in Seventeenth-Century Liège / Bram Van Hofstraeten
  • Incorporation and Limited Liability in Seventeenth-Century England: The Case of the East India Company / Stefania Gialdroni
  • From Commercial Guilds to Commercial Law: Spanish Company Regulations (1737–1848) / Carlos Petit
  • Partnerships as Flexible and Open-Purpose Entities: Legal and Commercial Practice in Nineteenth-Century Antwerp (c. 1830–c. 1850) / Dave De ruysscher
  • Form, Size, “Governance”: Remarks on Italian Late Nineteenth-Century Companies / Annamaria Monti
  • Index / D. De ruysscher , A. Cordes , S. Dauchy and H. Pihlajamäki.