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In the French Revolution, revolutionary legislators faced the problem of how to relate to the Catholic Church, to which the vast majority of citizens belonged. Inheriting theological, legal, and Enlightenment philosophical categories for...
In the sixteenth and seventeenth century, a curious phenomenon spread throughout France. Credit contracts, drawn up by notaries, began to include a short clause which leveraged "all of the debtor's movable and immovable property, present...
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