TY - JOUR AB - <p>This contribution explores the tension that existed in the nineteenth century in the Southem<br>Netherlands between the liberal legislation and the principle that markets without<br>official recognition were illegal. How did the authorities deal with that tension? The focus<br>here is on 'real' markets: formal or informal gatherings of buyers and sellers for the purpose<br>of trading commodities, often with a certain periodicity, sometimes in public, sometimes<br>in private places. The first part goes through the restrictive rules on the establishment<br>of such markets. The second part confronts these rules with the implications of the<br>liberal decree d'Allarde, declaring the exercise of all professions free. Finally, the last<br>part explores the legal means this ambiguous legal framework offered to act against illegal<br>markets: markets being held without official recognition. This contribution shows that<br>it mainly depended on local authorities whether such illegal markets could continue to<br>exist.</p> AU - Wouter Ronsijn DA - 2015/1// DO - 10.21825/kzm.v69i0.17535 IS - 0 VL - 69 PB - Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis PY - 2015 TI - Het wettelijke land en het werkelijke land: wetgeving en praktijk bij het houden van openbare markten in Belgiƫ in de 19de eeuw T2 - Handelingen - Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse maatschappij voor taal- en letterkunde en geschiedenis UR - https://openjournals.ugent.be/kzm/article/id/72035/ ER -