The article focuses on the main trends in the development of legal fundamentals of the organization and activity of corporate entities of different types in medieval Europe: unlimited and limited partnerships, trading and maritime companies, trade and craft guilds. The author emphasizes that corporate forms were typical not only for entrepreneurial associations but also for estate organizations. In spite of the private law character of the organization of European corporations, in the middle ages many of them had public rights.
corporation, trading company, unlimited and limited partnerships, merchant guild, commercial alliance — Hanse, workshop, workshop charter, maritime partnership, mining partnership, founders, monopoly privilege, joint and several liability
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