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maritime loans

"In the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, centred as they were on the Mediterranean, maritime transport was far more practical than land transport for long- and even medium-distance trade. The maritime loan thus seems to have been a Greek legal form, which the Romans adopted, and which remained in essence the same across the centuries, even if in the Roman period it was used for much bigger and more complex enterprises..." by Dominic W. Rathbone

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