Abstract
The currently modernized -- in the spirit of the digital revolution -- business register is a direct descendant the commercial register, which took shape in the 19th century under the influence of economic changes triggered by the development of technology, in the times called the industrial revolution. The first, and then the second industrial revolution contributed to the emergence of shareholding companies, i.e. joint-stock companies and later limited liability companies, stimulating the regulation of legal personality and the idea of a public commercial register open to all legal players and based on the constitutive nature of entries creating new legal entities. However, the very idea of a public register -- which evolved into a commercial register -- dates back to the beginnings of the urban revolution, when large human settlements started to spring up in the valleys of the Euphrates and the Tigris, later to become centres of crafts and commerce. It was at that time that the evolution of public registers started, which then covered ever new human activities.