ADVANCE ARTICLE: Mario CONETTI, "Banking Law in Italian Legal Consulting between the Fourteenth and the Fifteenth Centuries" (American Journal of Legal History)

 

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Abstract:

Banking operations in northern and central Italy between late fourteenth and early fifteenth century were very sophisticated and often gave rise to disputes involving the expertise only law professors could provide. To provide solutions which were at the same time viable and grounded in legal culture, lawyers went beyond merely practical considerations to work out legal institutions as a framework to banking activities. In doing so, they developed a proper banking law, a peculiar legal system.

Read more here: DOI 10.1093/ajlh/njad027.