Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identity the prevalence and kinds of financial crime in seventeenth and eighteenth century Roman‐Dutch law. Design/methodology/approach – The object is achieved by a legal and historical analysis of the available legal sources especially of the...

Legislation providing for limited partnerships was enacted in the Cape and Natal colonies during the second half of that century. Although the Cape and Natal enactments were eventually repealed more than a century later, the importance of these colonial statutes should not be ignored or...