Author: William Miller CollierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 4119
Book Description
The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898
Author: William Miller CollierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898
Author: William Miller CollierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 4119
Book Description
The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898
Author: William Miller CollierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898
Author: William Miller CollierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
Collier on Bankruptcy
Author: William Miller CollierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Debt's Dominion
Author: David A. Skeel Jr.Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400828503
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Bankruptcy in America, in stark contrast to its status in most other countries, typically signifies not a debtor's last gasp but an opportunity to catch one's breath and recoup. Why has the nation's legal system evolved to allow both corporate and individual debtors greater control over their fate than imaginable elsewhere? Masterfully probing the political dynamics behind this question, David Skeel here provides the first complete account of the remarkable journey American bankruptcy law has taken from its beginnings in 1800, when Congress lifted the country's first bankruptcy code right out of English law, to the present day. Skeel shows that the confluence of three forces that emerged over many years--an organized creditor lobby, pro-debtor ideological currents, and an increasingly powerful bankruptcy bar--explains the distinctive contours of American bankruptcy law. Their interplay, he argues in clear, inviting prose, has seen efforts to legislate bankruptcy become a compelling battle royale between bankers and lawyers--one in which the bankers recently seem to have gained the upper hand. Skeel demonstrates, for example, that a fiercely divided bankruptcy commission and the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress have yielded the recent, ideologically charged battles over consumer bankruptcy. The uniqueness of American bankruptcy has often been noted, but it has never been explained. As different as twenty-first century America is from the horse-and-buggy era origins of our bankruptcy laws, Skeel shows that the same political factors continue to shape our unique response to financial distress.
Debtors and Creditors in America
Author: Peter J. ColemanPublisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 189312214X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Americans now depend more heavily upon credit than any other society on Earth, or any other time in history. Borrowing has become a way of life for millions of families, and it is hard to imagine a time when charge accounts did not exist. Nonetheless, it would be a mistake to assume that, because a wallet filled with plastic instead of cash is a relatively new phenomenon, Americans have not been borrowers and lenders since the colonization of the New World. Author Peter J. Coleman proves otherwise. In one Form or another -- notes of hand, book credit, commercial paper, mortgages, land contracts -- settlers borrowed to pay their passage from Europe, to buy and clear land, to build and operate mills, to purchase slaves, and to gamble and drink. Debtors' prison awaited those who could not pay their debts, and a pauper's grave received the unfortunate who lacked the private means to feed and clothe himself in prison. While the debtors' prisons described in this book no longer exist, the author maintains that our credit-oriented society has yet to devise cheap, efficient, equitable, and humane methods of enforcing contracts for debt.
The Elusive Republic
Author: Drew R. McCoyPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
By investigating eighteenth-century social and economic thought--an intellectual world with its own vocabulary, concepts, and assumptions--Drew McCoy smoothly integrates the history of ideas and the history of public policy in the Jeffersonian era. The book was originally published by UNC Press in 1980.
The American Law Review
Author: A Treatise on the Law and Practice of Bankruptcy
Author: Henry Campbell BlackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description