Hanse Towns
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The collective name of certain German cities, including Lubeck, Hamburg, and Bremen, which formed ap alliance for the mutual protection and furtherance of their commerci] interests, in the twelfth century. The powerful confederacy thus formed was called the “ITlanseaiic gated a code of maritime law, which wis known as the “Laws of the Hanse Towns,” or Jus Hanseaticum Maritimum.