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An Essay On Horseless Carriages And Paperless Negotiable Instruments: Some Lessons From The Article 8 Revision, James S. Rogers
An Essay On Horseless Carriages And Paperless Negotiable Instruments: Some Lessons From The Article 8 Revision, James S. Rogers
James S. Rogers
As practices change, so too must the language and concepts that define and describe them. That is the lesson to be drawn from the past few decades’ work on the commercial law of investment securities. Article 8 is the first article of the Uniform Commercial Code to reach a third generation. There is the original version, the 1978 version, and now the 1994 version. The original version was based on the traditional system in which buyers and sellers effected transfer of securities by physical delivery of certificates. The 1978 version added new provisions dealing with “uncertificated securities.” Then the 1994 …
Antwerp Commercial Legislation In Amsterdam In The 17th Century. Legal Transplant Or Jumping Board?, Dave De Ruysscher
Antwerp Commercial Legislation In Amsterdam In The 17th Century. Legal Transplant Or Jumping Board?, Dave De Ruysscher
Dave De ruysscher
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the urban law of Antwerp that had been written down in a 1582 law book influenced the law of the city of Amsterdam. Although the Antwerp law has often been considered as the law in force in the Amstel city in that period, its role was actually more limited. At the end of the sixteenth century and during the first half of the seventeenth century, sections contained in the 1582 Antwerp compilation were used by the Amsterdam judges as common and subsidiary applicable rules for certain commercial issues. Later on, as the Amsterdam legislator …