TY - JOUR
AU - Calvert, H.
AB - Some Speculations About the Law of Business Association in the Early Common Law b11 H. CALVERT* T IS OFTEN ASSUMED that the raw material of Anglo-American com­ mercial law is the Law Merchant which spread from Europe, and particularly Italy, beginning to reach England in the course of the thirteenth century but not making its great impact until several centuries later. No one pretends that that system of regulation sur­ vived the migration without any change whatsoever. Yet the general view seems to be that apart from the compounding of their own ideas, the common law judges moulded the structure of the modern law exclusively from the substance of the received continental custom. To put the accepted view in such a form is to expose immedi­ ately one point of doubt. The phenomena of commerce begin to appear at a comparatively early stage of social evolution. There is no shortage of evidence that English society had achieved this degree of sophistication long before the influence of the Law Merchant began to make itself felt. This is the position generally. If we con­ sider the particular subject of this paper, i.e. regulation of the com­ mercial activities of groups as 
TI - Some Speculations about the Law of Business Association in the Early Common Law
JO - American Journal of Legal History
DO - 10.2307/843976
DA - 1965-01-01
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