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FRANCESCO GALGANO
2. See Judgement of May 19, 1988, Corte app. Genoa, 1989 Nuova
giuruprudenza civile commentata, 7 (It.).
3. See Francesco Galgano, Ii produotto misto assicurativo-finanziario [The
Mixed Product of Finance and Insurance], Banca borsa e titoli di credito 91,
(1987).
4. See A. Atti, Commercial Papers, Contratto e impresa 626, (1988).
5. See JOHN ROGERS COMMONS, I FONDAMENTI GIURIDICI DEL CAPITALISMO
[THE LEGAL FOUNDATIONS OF CAPITALISM] 335 (trans., 1981) (1924).
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11. See Judgment of August 13, 1981, Cass., 1982 Riv. Dir. Int., 79 (It.).
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12. See Judgment of April 5, 1984, Cass., 1984 Giust. Civ. I, 3067 (It.).
13. See Judgment of January 8, 1981, Cass., 1981 Riv. Dir. Int., 787 (It.).
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14. See Judgment of October 1, 1987, Cass., 1988 Foro It. I, 106 (It.).
15. See Judgment of September 22, 1986, Trib. Milano, 1987 Banca borsa e
titoli di credito II, 331 (It.).
16. See Judgment of October 9, 1986, Trib. Milano, 1986 Banca borsa e titoli
di credito, 337 (It.).
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17. See B. GOLDMAN, LEX MERCATORIA, Deventer (1984). See also, for an ex-
tensive bibliography, A. FRIGNANI, IL CONTRATO INTERNAZIONALE [THE INTERNA-
TIONAL CONTRACT], TRATTO DI DiRrrro COMMERCIALE E DI DIRITrO PUBBLICO
DELLECONOMIA XII, 14 et seq. Padova (1990).
18. See Judgment of February 8, 1982, Cass., 1982 Foro It. I, 2285 (It.):
A law within which arbitration works independently of
the laws of various states should be considered a trans-
national law. This is the case of the "mercantile" law that
exists through the adhesion of the business community to
the values of its environment, through its conforming to
those values induced by the opinio necessitatis that it has
with regard to these values, i.e. the prevailing conviction
that they are binding. Since the business community -
independently of citizenship and/or place of business -
agrees upon some basic values regarding its business and
agrees upon the aforementioned opinio necessitatis (even
for simply practical reasons) we should admit that a lex
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