The payment order of antiquity and the Middle Ages :: a legal history /

Examining the legal history of the order to pay money initiating a funds transfer, the author tracks basic principles of modern law to those that governed the payment order of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Exploring the legal nature of the payment order and its underpinning in light of contemporary...

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1. Verfasser: Geva, Benjamin, 1946-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; Portland, OR : Hart Publishing, 2011.
Schriftenreihe:Hart monographs in transnational and international law ; v. 6.
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Zusammenfassung:Examining the legal history of the order to pay money initiating a funds transfer, the author tracks basic principles of modern law to those that governed the payment order of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Exploring the legal nature of the payment order and its underpinning in light of contemporary institutions and payment mechanisms, the book traces the evolution of money, payment mechanisms and the law that governs them, from developments in Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, Rome, and Greco-Roman Egypt, through medieval Europe and post-medieval England. Doctrine is examined in Jewish, Is.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xlvi, 736 pages :)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 687-711) and index.
ISBN:9781847318435
1847318436
1280125551
9781280125553
9781847318664
1847318665
9781472561039
1472561031