Autore
Calafat, Guillaume

Titolo
Ramadam Fatet vs. John Jucker. Trials and forgery in Egypt, Syria and Tuscany (1739-1740)
Periodico
Quaderni storici
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 143 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 419 - Pagina finale: 440

This article presents a detailed case-study of trials between an English shipcaptain and an Egyptian supercargo (sopracarico) who opposed each other in thecourts of the Governor of Livorno and of the Pisan Sea Consuls in 1739-1740. It dealswith the thorny question of levels of trust involved in cross-religious trade, trying tounderstand how a simple disagreement over the unloading of cargo, that is a commonand relatively benign freight dispute, could end up qualified as fraud, or dolus; andhow this, in turn, triggered a series of accusations of other fraudulent practices, likeforgery, failure to report salvaged cargo, perjury, bad faith, legal chicanery, etc. Thisaffair shows how these different practices of fraud become entangled, designating agenus of fraud rather than a species of fraud. Moreover, it allows us to analyze several«litigious thresholds», that is the main stages between dispute, litigation and openconflict, characterized by the radicalization of both litigants' claims, a gradual increasein verbal aggressiveness and even the suggestion of physical violence.



SICI: 0301-6307(2013)143:2<419:RFVJJT>2.0.ZU;2-B
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