Nick Szabo -- Resources for the History of Commercial Law and Governance
Ancient Law
Timetable of World Legal History
Old thru New Kingdom Egypt, property and criminal law
Roman Twelve Tables
Roman Law of Actions
Fontes et iurisconsultorum vitae (Roman Law, in Latin)
Salic Law
Anglo-Saxon Dooms, 560-975
Icelandic
Law, 10th-13th centuries
Fénechas (Brehon Laws)
Fénechas (Brehon Laws)
Brehon Law: Contracts and Agreements
Pleas Before the Justices in Eyre in the Reign of King John
Commercial Law
Lex Mercatoria
English Coinage Regulations, c. 902-925
English Law of Partnerships, c. 1109-1118
English Medieval Town Laws
English Statutes of Merchants, 1283 & 1285
English Statute of Land Sales, 1290
Business Relationships
Sumerian and Assyrian contracts
Financing Civilization
Sale & Transfer of an Estate, 704
Florence: Note of a Double Loan Arising from a Tax, 1203
A Promissory Note Secured By Collateral, 1200
An Order to Purchase, 1235
Two Apprenticeship Agreements for Weavers, c. 1250
Loan to a Master Mason, 1252
Contract For Quarrying & Dressing Stone, 1248
A Purchase on Credit, 1248
Bill of Sale, 1248
Bill of Lading, 1248
Lease of a Workshop in Marseilles, 1248
Order for Sale of English Tin, 1248
Lease and Guarantee for a House, 1254
Acknowledgment by an Agent of an Order on Goods to be Sold in Montpellier, 1248
Receipt of Deposit From a Money-Changer, 1248
A bill of exchange drawn by Lübeck on Danzig, 1378
Dunning letter for a bill of exchange, 1411
Ban on interethnic credit and agency in Novgorod, c. 1295
Member abuse of group credit rating, 1462
Maritime Commerce
Maritime Law as a Mixed Legal System
History of Marine Cargo Insurance
A Brief History of Maritime Law
Admirality and Maritime Law
Henry II of England: Grant of Freedom from Wreck to Men of Lübeck, 1176
Port of Arles: The Navigation Code, 1150
Consoloto del Mare, 1258
Memorandum of Arbitration Concerning a Freight Charge, 1230
Commercial Institutions
Origin of Guilds, 884-930
Southampton Guild Organization, 14th Century
Grant of a Fair at St. Denis, 629
From The Heimskringla: Northern Fairs, c. 998-1026
Medieval Fairs & Markets, c. 998-1250
Tin Mining in Cornwall, Stannery Charters of 1198 & 1201
Agreement on the Exploitation of a Silver Mine, 1180
Grants of Privileges at London to the Hanse of Cologne, 1157-1194
Privileges Granted to German Merchants at Novgorod, 1229
Partnership Agreement between Moneylender and Cooper, 1248
Partnership Agreement for Money Changing, 1248
Purchase of Shares in a Ship, 1248
The Evolution of Cost Accounting
Account of revenues and expenditures of the town of Ipswich, 1446/47
Treaties, Constitutions, and Taxation
Aristotle: The Athenian Constitution
Magyar Agreements and Laws, Arpadean Era (10th-13th c.)
Grant of Market, Coinage, and Taxation Privileges to Bishopric of Osnabrück, 952
Siegfried, Archbishop of Bremen: Remittance of the "Hanse", 1181
English Magna Carta, 1215
The Arte della Lana & The Government of Florence, 1224
Lübeck and Hamburg Treaty, 1241
The Hanse of Utrecht, 1251
Coinage Agreement Between Hamburg & Lübeck, 1255
List of Florentine Crafts Subject to Tax, 1316
Surveys and Analysis
A Discourse Upon Coins by Bernardo Davanzati, 1588
James Madison: The Debates in the [United States] Federal Convention of 1787
French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Lex Mercatoria, contemporary revival
Centers for the Study of Emerging Institutions
Oliver Hart: Theory of Contracts and Firm Structure
Research on Contracts and the Structure of Enterprise
Henry Sumner Maine: Ancient Law
Matthew Hale: The History of the Common Law of England, 1713
Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England, c. 1230
F. W. Maitland: The Forms of Action at Common Law, 1909, full text
Charles Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws
James Kent, Commentaries on American Law
United States: The Federalist Papers
Frederic Bastiat: The Law
Natural Law
Herbert Spencer
Peter Kropotkin
Friedrich Hayek: Economics and Knowledge
Klaus Peter Berger
David Post and David Johnson, Law and Borders: The Rise of Law in Cyberspace
Eric Raymond: Homesteading the Noosphere
Yale Law Web, pre 18th century documents
Gregory Burch
Winnowed Grains
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