WORKSHOP: The Making of Commercial Law; Small, Medium-Sized and Large Companies in Law and Economic Practice (Brussels, 21-22 May 2015)

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 The Free University of Brussels (VUB), Research Group CORE (Contextual Research in Law) organizes a two-day workshop in the project "The Making of Commercial Law" (Helsinki/VUB/Frankfurt/Lille-II).

Abstract:

The goal of this workshop is to bring together scholars who have worked on the interactions between law and economic practice, and to address topics concerning the history of business ventures, from the Middle Ages until c. 1900. The papers of participants assess differences with regard to the size of partnerships and companies. Over the past years, limited and general partnerships have received ample attention from economic and legal historians. Organizational laws containing structural models for small enterprises (e.g. the French sprl and German GmbH) have been held up to the light. Doctrine and case law concerning partnerships have been analyzed. It seems that in both legal and economic practice, and for all periods mentioned, smaller companies mattered more than has previously been thought, and even in periods in which corporations existed. In view of this, many ideas about companies and firms – large and small – can be reconsidered. Topics that will be discussed during the workshop are, among others, legal personhood, limited liability, corporate finance, and corporate governance. 

The workshop is the second in a series on the history of commercial law, organized during the 2014-2017 period in Helsinki, Brussels and Frankfurt. The conferences will be organized in the framework of the project “The making of commercial law: common practices and national legal rules from the early modern period to the modern period".

 Programme:

Thursday 21 May 2015

9h coffee

9h30-10h50 first session 

• Ulla Kypta (University of Basel), Associates or Agents? Trading Enterprises in Northern and Southern Germany in the Late Middle Ages 
• Bart Lambert (Durham University) Making Size Matter Less: Italian Merchant Guilds as Tools for Capital Redistribution in Late Medieval Bruges 

10h50-11h05 coffee

11h05-12h35 second session 

• Anja Amend-Traut (Würzburg Universität), Structure of Early Enterprises – from Commenda-like Arrangements to Chartered Joint-Stock Companies (Early Modern Period) 
• Luisa Brunori (Université Paris Sud 11 – Université Lille 2), The Secunda Scholastica and the Commercial Company: Persons and Capital in the 16th and 17th Centuries

12h35-14h lunch

14h-15h20 third session 

• Bram Vanhofstraeten (Maastricht University), Small-scale and Medium-sized Industrial Enterprises in Seventeenth-Century Liège 
• Julie Hardwick (University of Texas), 'She Failed to Make a Book': Account Books, Small Enterprises and Emerging Practices of Record Keeping in Early Modern Lyon 

15h20-15h35 break 

15h35-17h fourth session 

• Stefania Gialdroni (Roma Trè, Arcadia University), Incorporation and Limited Liability in the English EIC: an Uneasy Relationship 
• Jelten Baguet (Vrije Universiteit Brussels), Corporate Governance in a Small-Scale Pre-Modern Maritime Enterprise: The Case of the Ostend Company (1722-1731) 

Friday 22 May 2015 

9h coffee

9h30-10h50 fifth session 

• Carlos Petit (Universidad de Huelva), From Commercial Guild to Commercial Law. Spanish Company Regulations, 1737-1848. 
• Annamaria Monti (Bocconi University), Italian Late 19th-Century Companies: Size and Corporate Governance 

10h50-11h05 coffee

11h05-12h25 sixth session 

• Ron Harris (Tel Aviv University), Private companies in 19th century England
• Dag Michalsen (Oslo University), The Development of Norwegian Company Law 1875-1910 

12h30-14h lunch

14h-15h20 seventh session 

• Joeri Vananroye (KU Leuven), Partnerships in 19th-20th c. French and Belgian Doctrine 
• Dave De ruysscher (Vrije Universiteit Brussels), Small Companies, Contractual Leeway and Third-Party Protection (Belgium, c. 1830-c. 1850) 

15h20-15h45 break 

15h45-17h10 eighth session 

• Edouard Richard (Université de Rennes), The Banque d’Union générale: Legal Aspects of its Shut-Down (1878-1885).
• Matthijs de Jongh (Court of Appeal, Amsterdam), Fuzzy Borders: Dutch Partnership and Company law in the Second Half of the 18th Century. 

Organizational committee:

Dave De ruysscher (Vrije Universiteit Brussels-Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)), Heikki Pihlajamäki (University of Helsinki), Albrecht Cordes (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), Serge Dauchy (Université Lille 2)

   Practical information:

SQUARE Brussels Meeting Centre (www.square-brussels.com/, Glass Entrance, rue Mont des Arts, B-1000 Brussels), Brussels

Entrance is free, but registration is required. The final date is 15 April 2015. Please send an email to dderuyss@vub.ac.be. Papers will be sent to participants.

Source: Nomôdos.

CONFERENCE REPORT: Dutch-Belgian Legal History Colloquium (Brussels: VUB, 11-12 Dec 2014) (by Maarten Vankeersbilck, Ghent)

Maarten Vankeersbilck graduated as Master in Law (Ghent, 2011) and took a specialized Master in European and International Law (VUB, 2012). From 1 October 2012 on, he works as an academic assistant at the Ghent Legal History Institute, where he focuses on the codification and development of civil procedure in Belgium, under the direction of Prof. D. Heirbaut.

On Thursday December 11 and Friday December 12, 2014, the Belgian-Dutch Legal Historian Colloquium took place at the Free University of Brussels (VUB, see announcement earlier on this blog). Since the early 1970s, this bi-annual (and at times annual event) has been alternately organized by either a Belgian or a Dutch university.  From the start, this forum promoted inter-universitary cooperation in the Low Countries. Young researchers traditionally receive the opportunity to disperse their findings to their peers. 

Fertile ground indeed, as we were welcomed by professor dr. Dirk Heirbaut (Ghent University), who himself is a longtime participant and presided the first panel on comparative legal history. First speaker was dr. Agustin Parise (Maastricht University) who applied the methodology developed in his dissertation to the case of the Dutch Burgerlijk Wetboek (1838) and the Argentinian Código Civil (1871), studying the influence of aforementioned Burgerlijk Wetboek on Argentines own codification. Next was Dr. Janwillem Oosterhuis (Maastricht University)  who presented his research on the impact of World War I (and its aftermath) on the concept of ‘Unexpected Circumstances’.

The organizer, professor dr. Dave De ruysscher, presided the next panel on Public Law in which Matthias Castelein (Catholic University of Leuven) presented his first findings of his dissertational research on the complicated relationship between the divided local traditions of Corsica and those of the new sovereign rulers of Liguria who had a more egalitarian and centralistic approach. Maarten Colette (Free University of Brussels) closed the morning sessions discussing Rousseau’s concept of liberty sparking a lively discussion on the interpretation of Rousseau himself.

The afternoon session on International Law opened under de presidency of professor dr. Randall Lesaffer (Tilburg University and Catholic University of Leuven). Dr. Mieke van der Linden (Catholic University of Leuven), who recently successfully defended her dissertation, gave us a glimpse on her thesis by presenting Euro-centrism within 19^th Century International Law by studying the legal and political justification of New Imperialism (1870-1914). Could international law be applied to all peoples? Was it a European creation or a product of the confrontation between European states with non-European political entities? Shavana Mussa (Tilburg University) took us to the 17^th century and discussed the end of the first Anglo-Dutch war (1652-1654) and the negotiations leading up to the Treaty of Westminster (1654). She focused on the remarkable arbitration commission that resulted from it, adding another peacemaking-tool to the arsenal of International Law. From one conflict to another, dr. Frederik Dhondt (Ghent University) discussed the Spanish Succession. He demonstrated how Vattel and Réal de Curban took a different strand of argumentation from respectively a Protestant-Swiss and a French point of view. Both used historical material implying a degree of objectivity but by the selective use of exempla continued the war on paper. Where Vattel rose to fame in International Law, Réal is less known resulting in a one-sided image of the war in legal doctrine.

French revolutionaries committed themselves to draft a constitution that would reconcile the organisation of the French state with modern ideas such as sovereignty of the people and the separation of powers. Amongst other things, this refers to the question of who can declare war, supervise diplomatic relations,… Dr. Raymond Kubben painted the picture of the administrative direction of foreign relations in Benjamin Constants constitutional thinking. Inge Van Hulle (Catholic University of Leuven) closed the first day with a contribution on the concept of ‘sphere of influence’ in International Law (1870-1920). Even though this concept is strongly associated with the Cold War, Ms. Van Hulle proved its relevance  in the international discourse and state practice at the end of the 19^th century.

The forum resumed its operations the next day with an extensive session on administrative  and constitutional law under the presidency of Kees Cappon (University of Amsterdam). Nestor professor dr. Paul Nève (Tilburg University) shed his light on the transformations of Maastricht’s double government (the city had two schepenbanken and two ‘mayors’, the bishop of Liège and the duke of Brabant) at the end of the 14^th century (1378-1409) and the defining role of Anthony of Burgundy. Lukas van den Berge (Utrecht University) discussed the admissibility of administrative jurisdiction in Dutch doctrine by studying the arguments made in the beginning of the 19^th century by legal scholar Antonius Struycken and Jan Loeff. From the Netherlands Brecht Deseure (Free University of Brussels) brought us back to Belgium by studying the (degree of) recuperation of the ideas of old constitutions, as symbols of the old freedoms, by Belgian revolutionaries in 1830 and in which way these constitutions were a beacon of resistance under the French occupation.

After the coffee break, the colloquium resumed with a session on Private Law. Wouter Druwé (Catholic University of Leuven) addressed the question of whether or not the writ of debt was actually an English condictio, Marten Reijntjes (Groningen University) presented a historical perspective on the civil responsibility of judges overstepping the deontological boundaries of their function. Lastly, Benoît Lagasse (University of Liège) presented his planned dissertation on 17^th century Liégois lawyer Charles de Méan, detectingthe influence of roman law and Liège customary law aspects of Private Law in Charles de Méans’ work Observationes et res judicatae ad jus civile Leodiensium.

Respecting the chronology, the final panel was  on contemporary legal history. In the spirit of the Belgian-Dutch cooperation, dr. Sebastiaan Vandenbogaerde (Ghent University) discussed the use of Dutch language in Belgium’s legal periodicals and tried to unveil possible international relations, or is law really a nationalist theme? Dr. Bruno Debaenst (Ghent University) on the other hand turned his gaze to the international forum again with a contribution on the cradle of a social Europe indicating the role played by the international congresses on labour accidents and social insurances.

The colloquium was formally closed by the dean of the Brussels Law Faculty, professor dr. Wilfried Rauws, who showed his sympathy towards legal history. He emphasized and reminded the attendees of the importance of legal history and plead for its conservation in Belgian universities. Encouraging, in times were academic curricula are under pressure by an abundance of ever more specialized courses on positive law.

VACANCY: Ph.D.-fellowship at the University of Leuven (KUL), Comparative Legal History of Banking Regulation (DEADLINE 18 FEBRUARY 2015)

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The Legal History Blog announced a vacancy at the University of Leuven (KUL) for a doctoral position on 19th and 20th century banking law.

Details:

For the Division for Roman Law and Legal History we are looking for a PhD candidate with a master's degree in law [for a position,] Comparative Legal History of Banking Regulation in the Modern Period.  The Research Unit of Roman Law and Legal History is a dynamic and strong team with expertise in all fields of legal history ranging from Roman law through canon law and Byzantine law. Particularly, the candidate will strengthen the department's expertise in the modern history of economic and financial law.

Within the framework of project on "Finance and Faith (fides) in the Western Legal Tradition", funded by the Special Research Fund (BOF), the candidate will be expected to conduct research on banking regulation in the 19th and 20th centuries from a comparative perspective.

The candidate has obtained a master's degree in law from a Belgian or a foreign university with at least distinction. The candidate will be expected to apply for international travel grants and follow-up funding.

For more information please contact Prof. dr. Wim Decock, tel.: +32 16 32 52 39, mail: wim.decock@law.kuleuven.be.

You can apply for this job no later than February 18, 2015 via the online application tool. 

PODCAST: Alain Wijffels on the endgame between the Hanse and England

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Prof. dr. Alain Wijffels (KUL/UCL/CNRS) held the annual lecture of the Stair Society on 15 November 2014, on the theme 'England and the German Hanse: The Long Endgame (1474-1604)'.

The event has been broadcast as a podcast (Soundcloud), available here.

E-JOURNAL: Clio@Thémis VIII: argumentative practices and legal procedure

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Nomôdos anonunces the publication of a new issue of the electronic journal Clio&Thémis.

Table of contents:

Dossier: L'argumentation au cœur du processus judiciaire

• C. Denys et N. Seriu, L’argumentation au cœur du processus judiciaire.
• A. Wijffels, L’argumentation dans les recours en révision au Grand Conseil de Malines: une distinction estompée entre «fait» et «droit»?
• M. Cavina, Consilia: il modello di Andrea Alciato. Tipologie formali e argomentative fra mos italicus e mos gallicus.
• I. Arnal-Corthier, Une source d’argumentation dans l’appel de grand criminel à la fin du XVII^e siècle: les lettres de cassation présentées au parlement de Toulouse.
• J. Lorgnier, Vérités contradictoires en Parlement: Preuve et justification des parties à la troisième chambre du parlement de Tournai.
• N. Seriu, Argumentation au sujet d’un délit méconnu: Achat et «troc» d’uniformes de déserteurs à la fin l’Ancien Régime.
• Br. Debaenst, The argumentation in workplace accident trials. The case of the civil court of Mons (1870-1904).
• Fr. Chauvaud, Pleurs, effroi et rires dans les prétoires. Le triomphe de l’émotion en cour d’assises (1880-1940).

Varia

• Fr. Charlin, Droit romain et Code Noir. Quelques réflexions a posteriori
• A. Rita Jurewicz, Commorientes. Einige Bemerkungen zu dem Rechtsinstitut im polnischen Zivilrechtsystem

Abstracts:

Résumés

Dossier:

L'argumentation au cœur du processus judiciaire

• Catherine Denys et Naoko Seriu, L’argumentation au cœur du processus judiciaire

S’intéresser aux pratiques judiciaires d’une société du passé, observer le déroulement d’un procès à l’aide des archives judiciaires conduit d’emblée à constater la place centrale que prend l’argumentation. Si les mots – dits et écrits – produits dans ce cadre sont pléthore, ils s’inscrivent généralement dans une visée stratégique qui a pour but de convaincre. Les plaideurs – souvent assistés par des juristes professionnels – cherchent à démontrer la légitimité de leur cause. La partie adverse réplique pour (...) - Lire l'article

• Alain Wijffels, L’argumentation dans les recours en révision au Grand Conseil deMalines : une distinction estompée entre « fait » et « droit » ?

Résumé : Au XVIe siècle, le recours en révision au Grand Conseil de Malines était en principe réservé aux cas où une partie alléguait une erreur de fait dans le jugement du Grand Conseil. Les archives de la pratique révèlent toutefois que dans les procédures en révision, les conseils justifiaient souvent le recours à partir d’arguments juridiques. Une analyse plus détaillée de ces argumentations semble démontrer que les arguments juridiques se référaient dans ces procédures en révision avant tout aux sources (...) - Lire l'article

• Marco Cavina, Consilia : il modello di Andrea Alciato. Tipologie formali eargomentative fra mos italicus e mosgallicus

On propose un examen de la structure dialectique des consilia sapientis pro veritate du droit commun, de leur évolution et de leurs « trois » différents styles entre Moyen Âge et Âge Moderne, en se concentrant en particulier sur l’œuvre et la pensée de Carlo Ruini (1456-1530), mais surtout de Andrea Alciato (1492-1550), qui se révèle très riche de nouveautés très intéressantes. Mots-clés : Consilia, Alciat, Ruini Abstract : We suggest a review of the dialectical structure of consilia sapientis pro (...) - Lire l'article

• Isabelle Arnal-Corthier, Une source d’argumentation dans l’appel de grand criminel à la fin du XVII^e siècle : les lettres de cassation présentées au parlement de Toulouse

Dans le dernier tiers du XVII^e siècle, alors que dans l’appel de grand criminel la seule formalité nécessaire se résume à l’audition des accusés, certains trouvent le moyen de présenter une défense élaborée, impliquant la participation de juristes. Dans quelques rares cas, l’accusé produit ainsi devant le Parlement des « Lettres royaux pour obtenir cassation », ce qui a pour effet de faire « recevoir le procès par écrit ». C’est donc un procureur (parfois un avocat) qui élabore pour l’impétrant (...) - Lire l'article

• Jacques Lorgnier, Vérités contradictoires en Parlement : Preuve et justification des partiesà la troisième chambre du parlement de Tournai

L’argumentation, en justice, a pour objet d’exposer des faits ou des idées afin d’emporter la conviction du juge. La procédure organise et cadre les débats afin de révéler une vérité judiciaire fondée sur des preuves solides, admises contradictoirement. 
Le parlement de Tournai ne déroge pas à cette règle. Ainsi, à la troisième chambre du parlement de Flandre, de nombreux conflits à propos de la jouissance de biens et de droits montrent tout d’abord combien, à défaut de titres, il a fallu se contenter (...) - Lire l'article

• Naoko Seriu, Argumentation au sujet d’un délit méconnu : Achat et « troc »d’uniformes de déserteurs à la fin l’Ancien Régime

Cet article s’intéresse aux argumentations qui se déploient dans les procès prévôtaux intentés contre des individus – hommes et femmes – ayant acquis des uniformes militaires auprès d’un déserteur, et poursuivis comme « fauteurs » de désertion dans les trois dernières décennies de l’Ancien Régime. Comment cherchent-ils à justifier leur transaction avec les déserteurs ? Si, par exemple, la mise en avant de leur ignorance au sujet de l’illégalité de leurs gestes est une stratégie couramment employée, (...) - Lire l'article

• Bruno Debaenst, The argumentation in workplace accident trials. The case of the civil court of Mons (1870-1904)

À la fin du dix-neuvième siècle, les procès d’accident du travail se multiplient en Belgique, comme dans les autres pays européens. Ces procès ont un caractère hybride, mêlant argumentation industrielle et juridique. L’article analyse cette argumentation spécifique via l’étude de 293 procédures ayant eu lieu devant le tribunal civil de Mons entre 1870 à 1904. Mots clés : Belgique, responsabilité, accidents du travail, argumentation, tribunal civil Abstract : At the end of the nineteenth century, (...) - Lire l'article

• Frédéric Chauvaud, Pleurs, effroi et rires dans les prétoires. Le triomphe de l’émotion en cour d’assises (1880-1940)

Dans l’enceinte des juridictions répressives, les émotions jouent un rôle essentiel. Des présidents de cours d’assises, des avocats et des observateurs du fonctionnement de la justice pénale l’ont régulièrement mentionné. Entre 1880 et 1940, mémoires, livres de souvenirs et témoignages donnent à cet égard de nombreuses informations. L’un d’eux souligne à sa manière, en 1923, qu’il s’agit d’un tournant herméneutique. Les émotions, il est vrai, occupent une place centrale dans la fabrique de « la (...) - Lire l'article

Varia

• Frédéric Charlin, Droit romain et Code Noir. Quelques réflexions a posteriori

À Rome la servitude est domestique, avant les conquêtes qui en transforment la nature. L’esclavage colonial est une exploitation économique fondée sur la traite négrière. Comment les administrateurs appréhendent-ils la qualification juridique de l’esclave ? Le Code Noir reprend-il des règles locales ou des précédents romains pour encadrer une pratique en fonction des effets attendus sur la propriété des colons ? Si le droit romain sert de matrice, s’agit-il d’une simple reprise ou d’une influence (...) - Lire l'article

• Aldona Rita Jurewicz, Commorientes. Einige Bemerkungen zu dem Rechtsinstitut im polnischen Zivilrechtsystem

Cet article est consacré à la question de la présomption de décès simultanés de deux personnes ou plus qu’établit la loi civile polonaise (art. 32 KC). Posant la question de l’interprétation juridique (linguistique et systématique) et des prémisses nécessaires à l’application de ce type de présomption selon la doctrine civiliste polonaise, il s’interroge aussi sur les doutes liés à sa reconnaissance. Mots-clés  : comourants, présomption légale, praesumptio juris tantum, praesumptio ec de iure, droit (...) - Lire l'article

ARTICLE: "The Evolution of Corporate Law in Post-Colonial India: From Transplant to Autochthony", by Umakanth Varottil

Umakanth Varottil (National University of Singapore (NUS) - Faculty of Law), The Evolution of Corporate Law in Post-Colonial India: From Transplant to Autochthony

LEGAL HISTORY eJOURNAL

Vol. 19, No. 13: Feb 3, 2015

abstract

The essential thesis of this paper is that while Indian corporate law began as a legal transplant from England, it has been progressively decoupled from its source with subsequent amendments and reforms being focused either on finding solutions to local problems or borrowing from other jurisdictions. To that extent, decolonization has had a significant effect of radically altering the course of Indian corporate law. Current Indian corporate law not only represents a significant departure from its colonial origins, but the divergence between Indian law and English law as they have developed since independence has been increasing. While the Indian lawmaking process indulged in close cross-referencing of English legal provisions during the colonial period and immediately thereafter, the more contemporary legislative reforms pay scant regard to corporate law in the origin country that initially shaped Indian corporate law. 

BOOK: "Unwritten Verities: The Making of England's Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549", by Sebastian Sobecki

Unwritten Verities: The Making of England's Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549, by Sebastian Sobecki

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In Unwritten Verities: The Making of England’s Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549, Sebastian Sobecki argues that the commitment by English common law to an unwritten tradition, along with its association with Lancastrian political ideas of consensual government, generated a vernacular legal culture on the eve of the Reformation that challenged the centralizing ambitions of Tudor monarchs, the scriptural literalism of ardent Protestants, and the Latinity of English humanists.

Sobecki identifies the widespread dissemination of legal books and William Caxton’s printing of the Statutes of Henry VII as crucial events in the creation of a vernacular legal culture. He reveals the impact of medieval concepts of language, governance, and unwritten authority on such sixteenth-century humanists, reformers, playwrights, and legal writers as John Rastell, Thomas Elyot, Christopher St. German, Edmund Dudley, John Heywood, and Thomas Starkey.Unwritten Verities argues that three significant developments contributed to the emergence of a vernacular legal culture in fifteenth-century England: medieval literary theories of translation, a Lancastrian legacy of conciliar government, and an adherence to unwritten tradition. This vernacular legal culture, in turn, challenged the textual practices of English humanism and the early Reformation in the following century. Ultimately, the spread of vernacular law books found a response in the popular rebellions of 1549, at the helm of which often stood petitioners trained in legal writing. Informed by new developments in medieval literature and early modern social history, Unwritten Verities sheds new light on law printing, John Fortescue’s constitutional thought, ideas of the commonwealth, and the role of French in medieval and Tudor England.

LIBRARY: Free on-demand digitizing at the Berlin State Library (books published between 1701 and 1920)

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Forum Historiae Iuris reports the possibility for researchers to have legally relevant material digitized, thanks to a fund created for the next three years.

Full entry (in German):

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JOURNAL: Comparative Legal History Vol. 2, Issue 2: Special Issue, 'The Great War and Private Law' (eds. Michael Lobban & Willem H. van Boom)

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The second issue of Comparative Legal History's second volume, a theme issue on 'The Great War and Private Law' (eds. Michael Lobban and Willem H van Boom) has just appeared.

Research articles:

• "Introduction" (Michael Lobban) 
• "The Great War and Private Law: A Delayed Effect" (David Deroussin) 
• "The Effects of World War I on Austrian Private Law" (Martin P. Schennach) 
• "The Great War and the Reorientation of Italian Private Law" (Carlotta Latini) 
• "Private Law, Judge-Made Law and Heimatfront" (Hans-Peter Haferkamp) 
• "English Contract Law and the Great War" (Catherine MacMillan) 
• "The Great War and Dutch Contract Law" (Willem H van Boom)

Review article:

• "Comparative Legal Histories, Pluralities, and Empires" (Seán Patrick Donlan)

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