Wetboek van Koophandel

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Wetboek van Koophandel is a codification of Dutch commerce laws signed into law in 1838 based on the Napoleonic Code that was introduced in the Netherlands during the French conquest of the Netherlands.[citation needed] The law was then introduced by the Dutch to the Dutch East Indies, and has remained Indonesia's commerce law also after independence.[citation needed]

The laws containing regulations about the creation of Commanditaire Vennootschap, Naamloze Vennootschap, Firma as well as another rechtspersoon, shipping and trading regulations and bankruptcy laws.[citation needed] The laws is related to another private law of the Netherlands, Burgerlijk Wetboek and has some elements borrowed from the civil codification.[citation needed]

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