entangled in insolvency – jussi sallila 283 bers of the Rosenhane family. At least Schering Rosenhane was known as an admirer of Dutch commercial society.805 Dutch commercial influences had influenced Swedish legislation in the limited context of commercial towns with special privileges. However, the efforts to promote the formation of such a commercial insolvency law were weak because there was no institutional structure in which such a body of law could have been developed. By contrast, government was involved in the management of insolvency in many different and possibly contradictory ways. From another perspective, Jägerskiöld’s analysis of the case law strengthens the impression of a credit system in disarray. The differences between interpretations of the two Stockholm courts were but one of many problematic aspects of the law governing debtor-creditor relations. The situation was complicated by the practice of issuing royal moratoria and “recommendations” of the King, such as the one concerning Rebelledey and his creditors. The nomination of specific commissions to handle insolvency cases outside the ordinary judicial system is an additional confusing factor. In general, the period of the regency government of 1660-1672 has often been seen as the age of internal strife and contradictory policies. The financial distress of the government made it necessary to make various concessions to private financiers and mining interests.806 The contradictions of the council of the realm and the regency government also had a direct effect upon the working of Stockholm town court administration. It was settled practice at the Diet that the one of the Stockholm burgomasters served in the office of Speaker in the Estate of the Burghers, very often the judicial burgomaster. Therefore, the nomination of Stockholm burgomasters was not merely a matter of local politics and administration, and the intrigues of the regency period were reflected in the municipal government and the administration of justice.807 For example, during the early 1670s the jurisdiction in commercial and maritime law cases was transferred for a brief period from the department chaired by the judicial burgomaster to that led by the commercial burgomaster.808 805 Englund, Peter 1989 pp. 132-133. 806 See, e.g,. Lappalainen, Mirkka 2005 pp. 227-235. 807 Corin, Carl-Fredrik 1953, pp. 57-61. 808 Corin, Carl-Fredrik 1958 pp. 108-111. A Credit System in Disarray?
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