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Court, Credit, and Capital: Amsterdam's Insolvency Legislation in the Dutch Golden Age


ISBN13: 9781009631051
To be Published: August 2025
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £95.00



Seventeenth-century Amsterdam was a city of innovations. Explosive economic growth, the expansion of overseas trade, and a high level of religious tolerance sparked great institutional, socio-economic and legal changes, a period generally known as 'the Dutch Golden Age'.

In this book, Maurits den Hollander discusses how insolvency legislation contributed to the rise of a modern commercial order in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. He analyzes the procedure and principles behind Amsterdam's specialised insolvency court (the Desolate Boedelskamer, 1643) from a theoretical perspective as well as through the eyes of citizens whose businesses failed. The Amsterdam authorities created a regulatory environment which solved insolvency more leniently, and thus economically more efficiently, than in previous times or places. Moving beyond the traditional view of insolvency as a moral failure and the debtor as a criminal, the Amsterdam court recognised that business failure was often beyond the insolvent's personal control, and helped restore trust and credit among creditors and debtors.

Subjects:
Legal History
Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part I. Context:
1. Citizens and institutions
2. Morality and insolvency legislation

Part II. Procedure and Staff:
3. Procedure
4. Staff

Part III. Insolvents:
5. The accord
6. Cessie van Goede

Appendix 1 – Databases Accords
Bibliography

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