Local traditions v. academic law: collateral rights on movables in Holland (c. 1300-c. 1700)

Summary In the County of Holland, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the rules regarding security interests in movables changed fundamentally. Rules of doctrine came to be combined with rules found in local law, that is the bylaws of cities and regions. This went together with the re-interpreting of fragments of older bylaws. In 1631 Grotius’ Inleidinghe categorized the lien of the unpaid seller after delivery of the merchandise sold as entailing a reivindicatio . This new rule was adopted in cities in Holland, even though it ran counter the earlier approach that third-party effects of... Mehr ...