»Between Contrat de Mandat and the Principle of Abstraction. The Principles of Representation in Judicial Practice of Alsace-Lorraine from 1871 to 1900«: In his study, Moritz P. Bach examines the judicial practice in Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine at a place where and time when the German ADHGB from 1862 clashed with the French Code Napoléon from 1804, both conveying very different principles of representation in civil law. After a comparison of aforementioned legal texts, the author uses case law analysis to verify that Alsacian courts interpreted and developed French law according to the German ADHGB and its categories.