we can conclude that similar doctrines had been developed in Swedish legal thinking at least two centuries earlier.The labour court’s lawmaking around1930 is not only explained by references to the patriarchal traditions from police law and the masterservant statutes. Rather it reflects a central part of Swedish contractual thinking at least since Nehrman started to systematise Swedish private law in the 1720s. It had been used as an elastic instrument for adapting the law to actual positions and conditions or for expressing desires of how reality ought to be. One way of adapting this pragmatic method to a rapidly changing society was sketched by Alfred OssianWinroth in 1878. p a r t v, c h a p t e r 11 342 cont i nu i ty and cont ract Historical Perspectives on the Employee’s Duty of Obedience in Swedish Labour Law h
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