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Studia Iuridica

Bankruptcy and the Praetorian Pledge: The Law of the Books and the Law in Action in the Early Modern Netherlands

2019, 80, No. 1

Ilya A. Kotlyar

0000-0002-9914-5802

University of Tilburg, School of Law

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0013.4799

Publication date

17.09.2019

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open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

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Law

Discipline

law

Language of publication

English

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Abstract

The article points out at the discrepancy between the different Mss. of the Roman Justinianic text: Littera Pisana and Littera Bononiensis. The discrepancy entailed that the doctrine of medieval Ius Commune offered stronger protection of the collective rights of the creditors, in comparison with the Classical Roman law. The Roman Dutch “Elegant School”, despite its general reliance on the original Roman sources, already in the writings of Grotius demonstrated allegiance to the medieval doctrine on the issue of bankruptcy. The authors of the “Elegant School” continued to prefer the medieval interpretation of the creditors’ rights and bankruptcy, although Dutch practice was, in many respects, drastically different from the Ius Commune doctrine. This ensured a strong protection of creditors in bankruptcy in Dutch law.

Keywords:

“Ius Commune”,Roman Dutch Law,bankruptcy,legal history,collateral,prawo rzymskie w Holandi,bankructwo,historia prawa,zastaw

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