Accomenda

The Accomenda (or Commenda ) was in the Middle Ages in Italy a social contract mostly in sea trade , after which the Commendator someone ( commendatory ) money or things entrusted to and receives as a consideration a share of the profits received.

The word comes from ( Italian accomendare , "reserve a share of the profit", "entrust"). Already in the commercial statutes of Piacenza from the year 1391 “accomendare” occurs. It was a "commenda" with several among themselves in a firm standing shareholders . Giovanni di Bicci de 'Medici developed the Accommenda of Naples , which ended up being unprofitable in January 1426. It began in Genoa in November 1426 .

The Accomenda is considered to be the forerunner of the Grand Aventurei and the limited partnership .

Individual evidence

↑ Georg Friedrich von Martens, Attempt at a Historical Development of the True Origin of the Law of Exchange , 1797, p. 26 FN f
↑ Piacenza, stat. mercat., Lib. III, cap. 39, C 76, 77, 144
↑ Accoménda . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 1, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 78.

[1] Georg Friedrich von Martens, Attempt at a Historical Development of the True Origin of the Law of Exchange , 1797, p. 26 FN f

[2] Piacenza, stat. mercat., Lib. III, cap. 39, C 76, 77, 144

[3] Accoménda . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 1, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 78.