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... the diverge national private and commercial legal structure that have emanated as long ago as, the enactment of the first codes ( such as the Scandinavian codes, the French code and the Austrian code) and the emergence of national states in Europe. These codes themselves, however, which constituted a practical body of laws created by merchant usages and merchants' courts, infringed upon transnational elements that have, in turn, emanated from the practice previously in force, the so called lex mercatoria 2. It is to the creation of a similar law that all efforts are currently directed, however this time the efforts on the creation of a uniform private international law presents itself more problematic, due to the wide geographical and technical expansion of commerce, the various vested interests involved and of course the globalisation of economy which has naturally rendered even greater not only the importance of cross-border ...