Rolls of Oléron

The Roles d' Oleron are a French Seerechtskodex from the 13th century. They described the common law at sea, the practices of maritime trade and a catalog of Bußbestimmungen for offenders.

History

The origins of the Roles d' Oleron probably go back to practically exerted maritime law of the French Seehandelsleute the 12th and 13th century, which was based in turn on mittelmeerischem trade and maritime law. The Roles d' Oleron their names from the West French Atlantic island of Oléron, on which it should have been announced and filed publicly by Eleanor of Aquitaine while she lived there. Written down, they were probably ( depending on the source ) 1160-1286 and are considered the oldest written record of Seerechtssätzen. As oldest surviving version of the Roles the transcript († 1328 ) applies in the Liber Horn mentioned collection of legally dedicated English merchant Andrew Horn.

The Roles contain mostly casuistic regulations of the legal relationships within the crew, between the crews of various ships and the ratio of shipowners and charterers to the crew. Although the geographical base in the region of Brittany and Normandy is, the rules of law submitted to the 14th century in Western Europe. Copies of the Roles d' Oleron form the basis of a number of other Seerechtssätze. Early treatments of the 14th century, such as the Flemish translation Lugements / Vonnesse de Damme ( outer harbor of Bruges) or the Los de West Capelle ( Walcheren / Zeeland) later led to the general Dutch and Frisian Water Law. Further combined with lübischem right Hanseatic edits, such as the Ordinancien or Ordonnancen were up in the Baltic Sea region and led to the maritime law of Wisby. As printed in 1505 in Visby Water right van Wisby the right collection of there even came back to the Netherlands. Henry VIII of England was a The judgment of the sea, of Masters, of Mariners, and Merchants, and all Their doings. publish said receptacle that the Black Book of the Admiralty strongly influenced later. The importance of the Roles d' Oleron may be gauged by the fact that their influence can be demonstrated to the jurisdiction of the modern era.