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The London ‘Booke of Orders’: a 16th Century Civil Law Code in England

2012

Th e 16th century was the century of ‘codifi cation’ of insurance customs in Europe. Th e passage from oral knowledge to written rules entailed signifi cant changes and favoured major developments. Th is was particularly the case for England, where an insurance code was written between the late 1570s and the early 1580s. In the 16th century English mercantile customs evolved rapidly, detaching themselves from the Italian infl uence. At the same time, the increasing importance of Anglo-Dutch trade favoured the assimilation of Dutch customs into the London insurance practice. Th e fast development of English insurance customs, however, entailed signifi cant uncertainty as to the applicable ru…