perspective, Nehrman’s notions of a “natural law” may be understood as tools for the learned jurist to legitimatise the social differences of his own time by fitting them into an ideological and religious system. Even if the ideas that Nerhman elaborated in 1729 influenced Swedish legal thinking until well into the 19th century, as early as from the last decades of the 18th century some of their notions about society were radically questioned on a structural as well as an ideological level.When the debate about the “social issue”, was heated in the first decades of the 19th century, the legal character of the master-servant relationship attracted more attention in the public debate as well as among legal scholars. p a r t 1 i , c h a p t e r 2 60 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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