The payment order of antiquity and the middle ages : a legal history / Benjamin Geva.

Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Publishing, 2011.

1st edition

79263

Negotiable instruments -- History.

Payment -- History.

Transfer payments -- Law and legislation -- History.

Banks and banking -- History.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Money, payment in money, and the order to pay money

Money and monetary legal theory in antiquity and the middle ages

Funds transfers in antiquity : instruments, institutions and mechanisms

Deriving history from law : are cheques traceable to the Talmud?

The payment order under Roman Law

The medieval hawale : the legal nature of the suftaj and other Islamic payment instruments

Funds transfers under Talmudic : orthodoxy and adaptation

Payment orders in medieval continental Europe : book transfers and bills of exchange

Payment orders under English common law : the bailment of money and the reception of the bill of exchange

Evolution and transformation : the birth of the modern payment system in post-medieval England

Turning the wheels of post-medieval change : paper circulation and negotiability under English law

Staying on course : the footprint of ancient and medieval doctrine and practice on modern payment laws.

Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781849460521

xlvi, 736 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm