The Regulation of Commerce in the 19th Century in Hungary
The Regulation of Commerce in the 19th Century in Hungary

Summary/Abstract: One of the most known characteristics of sale contracts is, that they are the first and the oldest formations of contract law. Practically they are the basics of commerce, since most of the trading activities are performed in this way even nowdays. But today we can say, that sales contract are not just part of pivate law, but they are coloring the field of poblic law, beacuse sale contracts are made in commerce traffik, where we can find public controll of the administation.This studies is focusing on such govermental interventions of the administration, which have affect on the sales contract betweem the seller and the buyer, we can call this direct intervention. The typical act of this intervention is, when an governmental administrative organization imposes a fine on the seller for such activity, which goals to damage the buyers interests. This is what we can call the governmental, administrative intervention in pirvate sales. In public law, the field of consumer protection is the instrument, which regulates the governmental andministrative intervention into private sales. In this presentation I am demonstating shortly, how the field of consumer protection have evolved from a historical point of wiew, which we can call the first steps of consumer protection. In my studies I am refering to some circumstances, which have prepossessed the fact, that the consumer protection law, and so the governmentel administrative intervention showed up late, in the second half of the 19th century in Hungary.

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