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The Hanseatic League comprised medieval merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe. It gradually developed a common legal system, including a set of maritime laws to maintain its virtual monopoly over trade in the North and Baltic Seas.
Shown here is a 1667 collection of the Hanseatic Laws in German and Latin.