Özet:

The 19th century was a period in which radical changes and transformations were experienced in every field in Ottoman history. In this period, one of the many legal regulations implemented in accordance with the meaning of the Tanzimat, derived from the root of "regulation", was the Commercial Code of 1850, which was translated from the French Commercial Code in the field of Commercial Law. Afterwards approximately 20 years later, Mecelle-i Ahkâm-ı Adliyye was declared through the codification of Islamic law in the fields of Civil Law and Law of Obligations. In addition, some changes were made in the judicial organization in order to implement the new laws that regulate similar types of relationships. Thus, new courts such as commercial and nizamiye courts were established together with the existing judicial institutions. In this context, firstly, brief information is given about the legalization activities that regulate the commercial relations of the period and the judicial organization, considering the notion of institutional economics. Later on, the effect of legal and judicial changes on economic and commercial relations was evaluated through court records in Ceride-i Mehâkim. Within this scope, using the information obtained by the classification of court records, the types of economic relations (commercial and financial) between whom and the various identities of these people (religious, professional, regional, etc.) were evaluated. Thanks to the commercial relations networks obtained, the existence of the communal social structure in economic relations and in which social identity it manifests itself were tried to be determined.