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The Complete Works of Montesquieu. Electronic Edition.
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Volume II.
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BOOK XXI.: OF LAWS RELATIVE TO COMMERCE, CONSIDERED IN THE REVOLUTIONS IT HAS MET WITH IN THE WORLD.
CHAP. XVIII.: A particular Regulation.

CHAP. XVIII.: A particular Regulation.

THE †151law of the Visigoths made however one regulation in favour of commerce. It ordained, that foreign merchants should be judged, in the differences that arose amongst themselves, by the laws and by judges of their own nation. This was founded on an established custom among all mixed people, that every man should live under his own law: a custom, of which I shall speak more at large in another place.

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