This book deals with issues of Agricultural Leases under Belgian Law. It gives an original analyses of this area of law from four different perspectives: the notary, the agricultural business practice, the Justice of the Peace and the Supreme Court

This study concerns eighteenth century Dutch East India Company (VOC) tax farming practices in the Southeast Asian port town of Malacca. Empirical data from VOC archives are used to determine the value of VOC's tax farming. Adopting a qualitative methodology, and drawing on perspectives from...