Pro Memorie - Volume 21, Issue 1, 2019

Summary This article is an interview with Hilde Symoens, the fifteenth in a series of Pro Memorie talks with retired Dutch and Belgian legal historians. Born in Brussels in 1943, Hilde Symoens spent part of her youth in Congo, where her parents, still in the colonial era, worked as teachers, She returned with her mother to Belgium in 1958 and started her university studies at Ghent University in 1960. As her father Read More

Summary The borrower’s liability, as stated in article 7A:1781 section 1 of the Dutch Civil Code, differs from the Roman law tradition. In Justinian and Medieval Roman law the borrower’s liability was determined in accordance with the utility principle. As a consequence, the borrower was in some cases even without fault liable for theft. Roman law still played a role in the development towards the rule in the Dutch Civil Code, Read More

Summary This contribution studies the cessio bonorum of painter Rembrandt van Rhijn in relation to the relevant rules and institutions of Amsterdam.fn1I would first and foremost like to thank professor Eddy Put (KU Leuven), for repeatedly reading my drafts and providing me plenty of useful references and advice. Gerrit Vanden Bosch, Marie-Juliette Marinus, and Jos Van den Nieuwenhuizen kindly answered my many q Read More

Summary This contribution studies the cessio bonorum of painter Rembrandt van Rhijn in relation to the relevant rules and institutions of Amsterdam. In the Rembrandt case the procedural rules on the cessio bonorum were followed to a large extend. In regard to the beweysinge, a few weeks before the application for the cessio, it seems more convincing that it should be interpreted as a promise than as a conveyan Read More

Summary In this contribution, the life and constitutional views of Louis Wodon (1868-1946) are exposed. Raised in a Brussels family of liberal political persuasion, Wodon was appointed a full professor at ULB in 1906, where he taught courses on labour law, sociology and administrative law. Simultaneously, he careered as a civil servant in the Ministry of Economic Affairs. As Head of Staff of the King between 1926 and 1938, Read More