Resumen de Verträge zugunsten Dritter, "Bedürfnisse des Verkehrs" und Privatrechtsmentalität im Deutschland des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts
The history of the development of contracts in favour of third parties in Germany is usually told as a struggle of the need to embrace Industrialisation vs. the presumably ultra-positivist, retro-minded and utterly hermetic style of jurisprudence said to be dominant in the first half of the 19th century ("Begriffsjurisprudenz"). Starting from the existence of "practical needs" as a common argument in juridical texts of that period, this paper is an attempt of dogmatic history, revisited.
