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L’Acculturation Juridique Des Pratiques Commerciales À Anvers. L’Exemple De La Lettre De Change (Xvie-Xviie Siècle), Dave De Ruysscher

Dave De ruysscher

The contents of legal rules regarding commerce that applied in sixteenth-century Antwerp clearly show that they were crafted by jurists. During a process of creation of rules, university-trained compilers of the Antwerp law combined merchants' practices with academic legal concepts. The normative framework relating to bills of exchange provides an excellent example of this legal acculturation. When referring to the rights of the holder and beneficiary of a bill of exchange, Antwerp jurists described the latter's position as being 'in rem suam'. That formula came from academic literature concerning the Roman-law 'procurator in rem suam', which was an agent collecting …