Staple right

The staple right or settlement rights (Latin jus emporii, actually " market law " within the meaning of " Resell Rights" ) in the middle ages the right of a city to require overhauling merchants that they were unloading their wares in the city for a period of time, " piled " and offered. In some cases, traders were able to free by paying a stack of money from the stacking duty. Along with the staple right had the cities usually an envelope right.

Historical examples

Konrad von Hochstaden, Archbishop of Cologne, the city of Cologne granted on May 7, 1259 the staple right. All the goods - in particular the transported on the Rhine - had now three days will be offered to citizens of Cologne to buy. This arrangement gave the citizens of Cologne a significant wealth.

Many other cities have this right, including Mainz, Frankfurt am Main, Heilbronn, Neuss, Munden ( 1247 ), Minden, Frankfurt ( Oder), Görlitz ( 1339 ), Berlin, Magdeburg, Itzehoe ( 1260 ), Erfurt, Vienna ( 1221 ) and the Hanseatic cities of Lübeck, Hamburg, Stade ( 1259 ), Bremen and Zwolle ( 1438 ).

For the merchants was added difficulty is that the cities in question could not be bypassed and thus a larger radius subjected to the trade itself. So Leipzig was 1507 miles privilege of Maximilian I and could be staple right at 15 miles ( 115 km) stretch around the city.

Especially perishable goods such as dairy products, meat products, fish and the long-distance trade continued this support against a large trade hardship.

Was abolished in the law - as a result of decisions of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 - on individual currents through the Elbschifffahrtsakte of 1821, the Weser Marine Act of 1823, the Mainz file for Rhine Navigation of 1831 and generally through the establishment of the German Customs Union in 1834.

Stages of mercantilist trade policy

Joseph Schumpeter shares in his discussion of the mercantilist literature, the export monopolistic practices with respect to the stack right in three phases: