The Early History of the Law of Bills and Notes: A Study of the Origins of Anglo-American Commercial Law

by James Steven Rogers

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521522048
• ISBN13: 9780521522045
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"