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

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The Early History of the Law of Bills and Notes: A Study of the Origins of Anglo-American Commercial Law - Rogers, James Steven
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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 ...

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The Early History of the Law of Bills and Notes: A Study of the Origins of Anglo-American Commercial Law 2004, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521522045

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The Early History of the Law of Bills and Notes: A Study of the Origins of Anglo-American Commercial Law 1995, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521442121

Hardcover