OBJECTIVITY
As in the case of feudal law and manorial law, so in the case of mercantile law, during the period from 1000 to 1200, and chiefly between 1050 and 1150, rights and obligations became substantially more objective and less arbitrary, more precise and less loose.
There was a movement away from mere custom in the sense of usage (patterns of behavior) to a more carefully defined customary law (norms of behavior). The specificity of the norms of mercantile law increased as they were increasingly reduced to writing-partly in the form of commercial legislation but primarily in the form of written commercial instruments of a more or less stereotyped character. In addition, the objectivity of the new system was reflected in a greatly increased emphasis on impartial adjudication of commercial disputes and the emergence of new forms of mercantile courts.-341-