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SYNOPSIS OF TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL
LEGISLATION.
Industry and trade, which from ancient times had been confined to
the cities, and hedged in with oppressive restrictions, were liberated from
their trammels in the middle of the nineteenth century by the abolition of
the guild-system (skråväsen), which took place in 1846. The principle
of the liberty of trade is fully recognized in the Act of 1864, the Act
which still governs trade legislation.
General Trade Legislation Regulations.
In order to acquire the right of carrying on manufacturing business,
handicraft, or other trade, all that is required in the case of Swedish
subjects is the enjoyment of civil rights and full legal majority: no
certificate of professional skill or any other qualifications are demanded. Nor
is any kind of special license required: all that is necessary is to give
due notice of one’s intention to carry on a trade.
But even there requirements may in certain cases be dispensed with.
Industries or trades in which the sale of the goods made is not
contemplated, or which are carried on without paid assistants, fall beyond the pale
of the rule. Thus anyone is then and there at liberty to make articles of
household use and moreover to carry on manufacture, handicraft, or other
trade with the intent to sell the goods, provided that the trade be carried
on without the assistance of others than wife and children.
Similarly farmers and the agricultural population generally are then
and there at liberty to pursue any kind of domestic industry (husflit) with
intent to sell the goods made, provided that they do so without the
assistance of others than their wives, children, and servants.
If, on the other hand, the manufacture or handicraft goes beyond the
range of a home industry, that is, if it is carried on with the aid of other
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