[Commercial Code (without maritime law). Commentary.] This second edition "mean commentary" on the commercial code (HGB) picks up the thread of the proven Heymann commentary on the commercial code. The concept of the 1st edition - to provide a compact volume with a register for each of the four HGB books - has proven effective: To offer practitioners of commercial law a reliable, practical, user-friendly and scholastically well-founded explanatory work. Lucid material analyses with prefixed overviews, good readability, margin numbers, footnotes and detailed bibliographies perpetuate the merits of the previous edition and should ensure that a proven, updated working resource is offered for legal practice and the realm of scholarship. The work has been thoroughly updated. Legislature, judicial decisions and literature have been incorporated since the publication of the previous edition.