International audienceThis article presents a detailed case-study of trials between an English ship captain and an Egyptian supercargo (sopracarico) who opposed each other in the courts of the Governor of Livorno and of the Pisan Sea Consuls in 1739-1740. It deals with the thorny question of levels of trust involved in cross-religious trade, trying to understand how a simple disagreement over the unloading of cargo, that is a common and relatively benign freight dispute, could end up qualified as fraud, or dolus; and how this, in turn, triggered a series of accusations of other fraudulent practices, like forgery, failure to report salvaged cargo, perjury, bad faith, legal chicanery, etc. This affair shows how these different practices of fr...
International audienceThis article deals with the legal bases of French merchants’ commerce in the R...
The article contains historical and comparative analysis of the legal issues of four cases derived f...
This article compares the Swedish government’s legal practices to secure protection for its trade an...
International audienceThis article presents a detailed case-study of trials between an English ship ...
International audienceThis article was published in a special issue of Past & Present dedicated to t...
This article examines the litigation of an Ottoman merchant based in Algiers in the vice-admiralty c...
This article surveys the changing role of fraud (dishonest and immoral commercial practices) in publ...
The aim of this article is to analyse the trial that developed in the pontifical curia of Avignon ag...
The article aims to examine the deceitful practices employed by traders in the eastern Mediterranea...
This essay discusses the topic of fraud linked to the prizes taken by corsairs in the Mediterranean ...
Click on the DOI link to access the article (may not be free).Commercial conflict resolution in the ...
When dealing with Ottoman judges and judicial authorities, Frankish merchants and diplomats, but als...
International audienceIn November-December 1330, three bankruptcy sentences were issued against Sili...
[EN] This article examines the role played by the Ilegal trade, or smuggling, with respect to the In...
In the present article, based on Ottoman and Hebrew documents, we focus on peoplewho made up fictiti...
International audienceThis article deals with the legal bases of French merchants’ commerce in the R...
The article contains historical and comparative analysis of the legal issues of four cases derived f...
This article compares the Swedish government’s legal practices to secure protection for its trade an...
International audienceThis article presents a detailed case-study of trials between an English ship ...
International audienceThis article was published in a special issue of Past & Present dedicated to t...
This article examines the litigation of an Ottoman merchant based in Algiers in the vice-admiralty c...
This article surveys the changing role of fraud (dishonest and immoral commercial practices) in publ...
The aim of this article is to analyse the trial that developed in the pontifical curia of Avignon ag...
The article aims to examine the deceitful practices employed by traders in the eastern Mediterranea...
This essay discusses the topic of fraud linked to the prizes taken by corsairs in the Mediterranean ...
Click on the DOI link to access the article (may not be free).Commercial conflict resolution in the ...
When dealing with Ottoman judges and judicial authorities, Frankish merchants and diplomats, but als...
International audienceIn November-December 1330, three bankruptcy sentences were issued against Sili...
[EN] This article examines the role played by the Ilegal trade, or smuggling, with respect to the In...
In the present article, based on Ottoman and Hebrew documents, we focus on peoplewho made up fictiti...
International audienceThis article deals with the legal bases of French merchants’ commerce in the R...
The article contains historical and comparative analysis of the legal issues of four cases derived f...
This article compares the Swedish government’s legal practices to secure protection for its trade an...