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Commercial Paper In Economic Theory And Legal History, Harold R. Weinberg
Commercial Paper In Economic Theory And Legal History, Harold R. Weinberg
Kentucky Law Journal
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Commercial Paper In Economic Theory And Legal History, Harold R. Weinberg
Commercial Paper In Economic Theory And Legal History, Harold R. Weinberg
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Commercial-paper played a significant role in antebellum America by partially filling the void resulting from the shortage of gold and silver coinage and the absence of a reliable paper currency. Although most legal historians would agree with this premise, a controversy has arisen in recent years concerning negotiability, that collection of legal rules which greatly enhanced the usefulness of bills of exchange and promissory notes in commerce and finance.
Many scholars believe that negotiability, along with other pre-Civil War legal doctrines, was intended to facilitate the development of a national market system and economic growth. This view typically holds that …
Antebellum Commercial Law: Common Law Approaches To Secured Transactions, Tony Freyer
Antebellum Commercial Law: Common Law Approaches To Secured Transactions, Tony Freyer
Kentucky Law Journal
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Securing Commercial Transactions In The Antebellum Legal System Of Louisiana, Richard Kilbourne
Securing Commercial Transactions In The Antebellum Legal System Of Louisiana, Richard Kilbourne
Kentucky Law Journal
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