mixed legal systems – kjell å. modéer 419 mercial jurisdiction had succeeded, such courts could have served as an institutional basis for an insolvency law based on the commercial outlook.”1185 Reinhard Zimmermann has used the metaphor of “a legal tapestry of many different shades and nuances” to describe the mixed modern legal systems.1186 This metaphor can obviously be transferred to the early modern Swedish one, as this article has demonstrated. Mia Korpiola’s well-argued and documented articles demonstrate the complex and fragmented situation of the courts in sixteenth-century Sweden. Judicial revolution and efforts to structure the jurisdictions of the courts within differentiated privileges and the suum cuique principle resulted in the judicial culture of the printed Law Code of 1734. The dynamics of the transition of the judicial culture has been discussed in this book. It was not a straightforward development, since there were several aftershocks, especially in the conflict over the commercial jurisdiction, and fragmentation within the jurisdictions became a distinct pattern throughout the early modern period. This volume contributes new and fresh information and evaluation, comparatively adjusted to contemporary European legal history research. The next step in this research project must be to incorporate a more systematic comparative dimension.What are the similarities and differences in the deep structures and judicial cultures, not only between Livonia and Sweden, but also between Sweden and the continental-European countries and their judiciaries and court systems? A special objective would be to make this comparison with the Swedish provinces within the German Empire, especially the Tribunal in Wismar and Court of Appeal in Pomerania. Several of the articles deal with large subjects, which in the format of this volume have resulted in informative surveys, where several of them could have been extended into dissertations. But the result achieved is en1185 See Jussi Sallila’s article in this volume, p. 284. 1186 Zimmermann, Reinhard 2001 p. 158. Conclusion
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