UID:
almafu_9960119557902883
Format:
1 online resource (xxv, 267 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-47059-2
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in English legal history
Content:
This study traces the history of the law of bills and notes in England from medieval times to the period in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when bills played a central role in the domestic and international financial system. It challenges the traditional theory that English commercial law developed by incorporation of the concept of negotiability and other rules from an ancient body of customary law known as the law merchant. Rogers shows that the law of bills was developed within the common law system itself, in response to changing economic and business practices. This account draws on economic and business history to explain how bills were actually used and to examine the relationship between the law of bills and economic and social controversies.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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1. The central courts, commercial law, and the law merchant. Commercial cases in the central courts. The law merchant in the mercantile courts. The law merchant in the central courts -- 2. Early exchange transactions: commercial practice. Exchange transactions as means of funds transfer. Exchange transactions as finance. The dual functions of exchange -- 3. Early exchange transactions: private law. Exchange contracts in the mercantile courts. Exchange contracts in the Admiralty Court. Exchange contracts in the common law courts -- 4. Early exchange transactions: public law and policy. The debate over usury in exchange. The exchange controversy in England. The significance of the public controversy over exchange -- 5. From exchange transactions to bills of exchange: the transformation of commercial practice. The era of exchange transactions and the era of bills of exchange. The middleman economy and the development of inland bills.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-52204-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-44212-5
Language:
English
URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511470592
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