Author: Paul Frédéric Girard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roman law
Languages : en
Pages : 1180

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Author: Benjamin Geva
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1847318436
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 784

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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, Islamic, Roman, common and civil laws. Investigating such diverse legal systems and doctrines at the intersection of laws governing bank deposits, obligations, the assignment of debts, and negotiable instruments, the author identifies the common denominator for the evolving legal principles and speculates on possible reciprocity. At the same time he challenges the idea of 'law merchant' as a mercantile creation. The book provides an account of the evolution of payment law as a distinct cohesive body of legal doctrine applicable to funds transfers. It shows how principles of law developed in tandem with the evolution of banking and in response to changing circumstances and proposes a redefinition of 'law merchant'. The author points to deposit banking and emerging technologies as embodying a great potential for future non-cash payment system growth. However, he recommends caution in predicting both the future of deposit banking and the overall impact of technology. At the same time he expresses confidence in the durability of legal doctrine to continue to evolve and accommodate future payment system developments.

Author:
Publisher: Editions Bréal
ISBN: 2749525721
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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Author: Chris Brummer
Publisher:
ISBN: 019007731X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 457

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Cryptoassets represent one of the most high profile financial products in the world, and fastest growing financial products in history. From Bitcoin, Etherium and Ripple's XRP-so called "utility tokens" used to access financial services-to initial coin offerings that in 2017 rivalled venture capital in money raised for startups, with an estimated $5.6 billion (USD) raised worldwide across 435 ICOs. All the while, technologists have hailed the underlying blockchain technology for these assets as potentially game changing applications for financial payments and record-keeping. At the same time, cryptoassets have produced considerable controversy. Many have turned out to be lacklustre investments for investors. Others, especially ICOs, have also attracted noticeable fraud, failing firms, and alarming lapses in information-sharing with investors. Consequently, many commentators around the world have pressed that ICO tokens be considered securities, and that concomitant registration and disclosure requirements attach to their sales to the public. This volume assembles an impressive group of scholars, businesspersons and regulators to collectively write on cryptoassets. This volume represents perspectives from across the regulatory ecosystem, and includes technologists, venture capitalists, scholars, and practitioners in securities law and central banking.

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Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journal.s
Languages : en
Pages : 764

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Author: Bogdan Iancu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642223303
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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An overarching question of contemporary constitutionalism is whether equilibriums devised prior to the emergence of the modern administrative-industrial state can be preserved or recreated by means of fundamental law. The book approaches this problem indirectly, through the conceptual lens offered by constitutional developments relating to the adoption of normative limitations on the delegation of law-making authority. Three analytical strands (constitutional theory, constitutional history, and contemporary constitutional and administrative law) run through the argument. They merge into a broader account of the conceptual ramifications, the phenomenon, and the constitutional treatment of delegation in a number of paradigmatic legal systems. As it is argued, the development and failure of constitutional rules imposing limits on legislative delegation reveal the conditions for the possibility of classical limited government and, conversely, the erosion of normativity in contemporary constitutionalism.

Author: Julius J. Marke
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1886363919
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1418

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Marke, Julius J., Editor. A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University With Selected Annotations. New York: The Law Center of New York University, 1953. xxxi, 1372 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-19939. ISBN 1-886363-91-9. Cloth. $195. * Reprint of the massive, well-annotated catalogue compiled by the librarian of the School of Law at New York University. Classifies approximately 15,000 works excluding foreign law, by Sources of the Law, History of Law and its Institutions, Public and Private Law, Comparative Law, Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, Political and Economic Theory, Trials, Biography, Law and Literature, Periodicals and Serials and Reference Material. With a thorough subject and author index. This reference volume will be of continuous value to the legal scholar and bibliographer, due not only to the works included but to the authoritative annotations, often citing more than one source. Besterman, A World Bibliography of Bibliographies 3461.

Author: Agnès Bérenger
Publisher: Centre Régional Universitaire Lorrain d'Histoire site de Metz
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : fr
Pages : 436

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L'histoire de l'administration dans les sociétés anciennes et médiévales a été largement renouvelée depuis une vingtaine d'années par les recherches sur les formes de contrôle des administrateurs, le mandat ou encore l'articulation entre pouvoir d'ordre et pouvoir de juridiction dans l'Eglise. Malgré tout, les questions liées à la hiérarchie des pouvoirs administratifs, à la délégation de pouvoir ou à la responsabilité des administrateurs, tout comme l'évolution de l'organisation administrative, continuent de susciter des interrogations divergentes. Le colloque international réuni à Metz en juin 2011 avait pour objet de mieux saisir les enjeux de ces questions par le biais d'une approche réunissant les travaux d'historiens antiquisants et médiévistes. Privilégiant cinq thèmes (Délégation de pouvoir, cumul des pouvoirs ; Délégation de pouvoir et hiérarchie ; Contrôle des officiers et audit ; L'office médiéval ; Délégation de pouvoir et hiérarchie dans l'Eglise), les actes publiés dans ce volume tentent de faire le point sur les acquis de la recherche et de tracer des voies nouvelles pour la réflexion historique, en s'insérant dans une perspective comparatiste.

Author: Jean Gaudemet
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040234259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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In this volume Professor Gaudemet examines the growth and development of the law of the Church. The Decretum of Gratian and the corpus of conciliar legislation, two of its principal sources, figure prominently. While, in these studies, the author's interest lies principally with the investigation of the origins of canon law, he insists that one should not lose sight of the broader context and points to many areas that would repay further study. Church law, for instance, should not be taken in isolation but seen as a reflection of the needs and values of its time.

Author: Liliane Lopez-Rabatel
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 178836029X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 509

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After two centuries during which it had nearly disappeared in Western countries, sortition is used again as a method of selecting people who could speak for, and in certain cases decide for, all the citizenry. What is the meaning of this comeback? To answer this question, this book offers a historical analysis. It brings together a number of the best specialists on political sortition from antiquity to contemporary experiments, in Europe but also in the Ancient Middle East and in imperial China. With a transdisciplinary perspective, this volume demonstrates that sortition has been a crucial device in political history; that the instruments and places where sortition was practised matter for the understanding of the social and political logics at stake; and that these logics have been quite different, random selection being sometimes an instrument of radical democracy and in other contexts a tool for solving conflicts among elites. Will sortition in politics helps to democratize democracy in the twenty-first century?