THE PAYMENT ORDER OF ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGESPDF电子书下载

Prologue 1

1.Money, Payment in Money, and the Order to Pay Money 15

2.Money and Monetary Legal Theory in Antiquity and the Middle Ages 68

3.Funds Transfers in Antiquity: Instruments, Institutions and Mechanisms 116

4.Deriving History from Law: Are Cheques Traceable to the Talmud? 158

5.The Payment Order under Roman Law 191

6.The Medieval Hawale: The Legal Nature of the Suftaj and Other Islamic Payment Instruments 252

7.Funds Transfers under Talmudic Law: Orthodoxy and Adaptation 307

8.Payment Orders in Medieval Continental Europe: Book Transfers and Bills of Exchange 352

9.Payment Orders under English Common Law: The Bailment of Money and the ‘Reception’ of the Bill of Exchange 423

10.Evolution and Transformation: The Birth of the Modern Payment System in Post-Medieval England 467

11.Turning the Wheels of Post-Medieval Change: Paper Circulation and Negotiability under English Law 528

12.Staying on Course: The Footprint of Ancient and Medieval Doctrine and Practice on Modern Payment Laws 585

Epilogue: From Barter to Electronic Funds Transfers and the Role of Law 640

Illustrations 642

Bibliography 687

Index 713