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The Early History of the Law of Bills and Notes James Steven Rogers (Boston College, Massachusetts)

The Early History of the Law of Bills and Notes By James Steven Rogers (Boston College, Massachusetts)

The Early History of the Law of Bills and Notes by James Steven Rogers (Boston College, Massachusetts)


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This is a history of the law of bills and notes from medieval times to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when bills played a central role in domestic and international finances. It charts the development of legal rules and the relationship between law and economic and social controversies.

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The Early History of the Law of Bills and Notes: A Study of the Origins of Anglo-American Commercial Law by James Steven Rogers (Boston College, Massachusetts)

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.

The Early History of the Law of Bills and Notes Reviews

'This is a thoroughly absorbing and consistently illuminating book'. Henry Roseveare, Business History

Table of Contents

Preface; Table of cases and precedents; Note on citation; Introduction; 1. The central courts, commercial law, and the law merchant; 2. Early exchange transactions: commercial practice; 3. Early exchange transactions: private law; 4. Early exchange transactions: public law and policy; 5. From exchange transactions to bills of exchange: the transformation of commercial practice; 6. The custom of merchants and the development of the law of bills; 7. The civilians and the law of bills in the seventeenth century; 8. Transferability and negotiability; 9. The law of bills and notes in the eighteenth century; 10. The problem of accommodation bills; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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NPB9780521442121
9780521442121
0521442125
The Early History of the Law of Bills and Notes: A Study of the Origins of Anglo-American Commercial Law by James Steven Rogers (Boston College, Massachusetts)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
1995-03-09
296
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