In this study (part ii) we will consider the Swedish Code of 1734 and the writings of the Swedish scholar David Nehrman (16951769). Did they bring about any significant changes concerning the legal analysis of the tjänstehjons- or legohjonsförhållandet, hereinafter called “the master-servant relationship”?The period and the subject in question are of interest from a legal-historical perspective as well as for an understanding of modern labour law. For Sweden the17th and18th centuries formed a period of great reforms and intense influences from abroad.The year 1660 signifies the high-water mark of the country’s short existence as the leading Protestant power in Europe. The southern provinces of the Scandinavian Peninsula had been won from Denmark and the Baltic provinces of Estonia and Livonia belonged to Sweden, as did large parts of Pomerania and various cities in Northern Germany. Sweden’s position as an empire was to collapse as early as in 1718, but the reorganisation of the administrative, political and judicial system has in its main traits persisted until this day.The so-called Age of Liberty (1718-1772) was not only a period of great significance for the Swedish model of parliamentary polity and separation of powers. It also forms an important backdrop for analysing current Swedish legislation and legal writing.34 c o n t i n u i t y a n d c o n t r ac t 33 “…is founded upon the law of Nature itself…” part i i , chapter 2 2 . 1 purpose, background and theoret ical points of de parture 34 Strömholm1991,p. 24. 2 David Nehrman and the Code of on the master-servant relationship
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