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

• Authors: Kotlyar, Ilya A

Abstracts

EN

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

EN

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

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Studia Iuridica
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 80
• Pages: 181-196

Dates

published

2019-09-20

Contributors

author

Kotlyar, Ilya A

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0013.4799