Intra-European litigation in eighteenth-century Izmir : the role of the merchants' style / by Tijl Vanneste.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vanneste, Tijl, author.

Series:

Mediterranean reconfigurations ; v. 4.

Mediterranean reconfigurations ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consular jurisdiction--History--18th century.

Consular jurisdiction.

Commercial courts--Turkey--İzmir--History--18th century.

Commercial courts.

Dutch--Legal status, laws, etc--Turkey--İzmir--History--18th century.

Dutch.

Capitulations--Turkey--History--18th century.

Capitulations.

History.

Turkey.

Turkey--İzmir.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 366 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

"The book challenges the idea of a universal 'law merchant', to replace it with a more nuanced analysis that centralizes the interplay between informal merchant custom, as advocated by traders and judges alike, and formal procedural legislation, drawn mostly from Roman law, in the resolution of mercantile disputes"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Dutch in the Levant

1. The Early Development of Dutch Levant Trade

1.1. Straatvaart: Dutch Navigation into the Mediterranean

1.2. The Directorate of Levant Trade and European Competition

2. The Dutch Levantine Institutional Context

2.1. A Short History of the European Capitulations

2.2. The Dutch Consular System in the Levant

3. The Dutch Consulate of Izmir

3.1. The Evolution towards Stability

3.2. The Consular Protection of Jews

3.3. Purchasing Protection: The Beratlis or Honorary Dragomans

4. The Dutch Trading Community of Izmir in the Eighteenth Century

4.1. A Community of Competing Traders

4.2. Levantine Commission Trade

2. The Dutch Consular Court of Izmir

1. Consular Jurisdiction

1.1. Adjudication in the Capitulations

1.2. The Establishment of ConsularJurisdiction

1.3. A Proposal to Codify Adjudication in the Levant

2. The Dutch Legal Context

2.1. Sources of Roman-Dutch Law

2.2. The Diversity of Jurisdictions and the Similarity ofCourts

3. Procedures in Commercial Litigation

3.1. Dutch Regulations on Procedure

3.2. Summary Procedure and the Merchants' Style

3.3. Summary Procedure at the Dutch Consular Court of Izmir

3. The Adjudication of Commercial Disputes within the Dutch Community

1. Adjudication amongst Peers: The Use of Arbitration

1.1. The Friendly Settlement of Local Troubles

1.2. A Failed Attempt at Arbitration

2. The Mother of Levantine Trade Quarrels: Disputing Commission Trade

2.1. The Principal-Agent Problem

2.2. Commission Trade Gone Wrong

2.3. Whose Responsibility Is It?

3. Friendship on Trial

3.1. The Bond between Merchants

3.2. The Mutual Pursuit of Profit

3.3. International Support for the Merchants' Style

4. Europeans at the Dutch Consular Court

1. Belonging to a European Trade Nation Abroad

11. Forum Rei and a Clash of Laws

1.2. Competition from Within: The Prussian Royal Levant Company

1.3. A Local European Dispute without any Dutch Involvement

1.4. The Possibility of Appeal

2. Unravelling the Web of Commission Trade in Court

2.1. Crossing Physical Distance by Power of Attorney

2.2. The Trial

2.3. A Complicated Web of Entanglement

2.4. Invoking `National' Law versus the Merchants' Style

3. Litigants at Sea and Maritime Jurisdiction

5. Ottomans at the Dutch Consular Court

1. Levantine Confrontations with the Law

1.1. Sequesters in 1686

1.2. Central Courts in the United Provinces

1.3. The States General and Ottoman Justice

2. Legal Issues of Dutch Protection and Subject Status

2.1. Berath Problems

2.2. Ottoman-Dutch Intercultural Partnerships

3. The Most Cosmopolitan Form of Quarrelling

3.1. Gerrit van Brakel's Bill of Exchange

3.2. Ottoman Justice and European Protection

4. An Islamic Merchants' Style?

4.1. European Fear of Ottoman Abuses

4.2. Greek Community Resolutions

4.3. The Merchants' Style through Muslim Eyes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Vanneste, Tijl. Intra-European litigation in eighteenth-century Izmir

ISBN:

9789004382701

9004382704

OCLC:

1269417248