Negotiable Instruments Law

Author: Liu Yongguang / Chen Gongjian (editors)
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: This book systematically elaborates on the basic concepts and principles of bills and bill law, providing legal explanations for fundamental concepts such as bill acts, bill rights, defects in bills, bill defenses, bill prescription and the right to claim restitution of interests, blank bills, the loss of bills and remedies, and the legal application of foreign bills. The book also introduces relevant legal provisions for drafts, checks, and promissory notes. In China's socialist legal system construction, commercial legislation is the most active field and also the most accomplished one. From the Foreign Investment Enterprises Law of 1979 to the Company Law of 1993, and then to the Trust Law of 2001, specialized legislation (laws or regulations) has been enacted in most commercial law fields, including companies, enterprises, securities, bills, insurance, maritime law, trusts, guarantees, futures, tendering and bidding, and auctions. Since commercial law directly reflects the requirements of the market economy, learning and mastering the theoretical knowledge of commercial law can directly serve market economic activities. As a result, commercial law has been highly valued in legal education and various forms of legal knowledge training, becoming a prominent highlight in legal studies, and commercial law research has also become one of the hot topics in legal theoretical studies. In recent years, the Law Department of Xiamen University has been committed to the development of civil and commercial law disciplines and courses, textbooks, and has organized the writing of a series of civil and commercial law textbooks (including General Principles of Civil Law, Property Law, Debt Law, Intellectual Property Law, Marriage, Family, and Inheritance Law, Commercial Law [Volume I and II]). This has achieved certain results. To further promote the theoretical teaching and research of commercial law, the Law Department of Xiamen University has collaborated with Fujian Provincial College of Political and Legal Administration for the first time, organizing some teachers engaged in civil and commercial law theoretical teaching and research to write this series of commercial law books, aiming to make contributions in the teaching and research of commercial law. The original intention of compiling this series of books is to provide undergraduate law students with a relatively complete textbook and reference book on commercial law. Therefore, we particularly emphasize the need to focus on combining China's legislative and judicial practices, systematically elaborating on the basic concepts, fundamental knowledge, and basic theories of various commercial laws, and as far as possible, incorporating new achievements in theoretical research. Thus, this series of books can be used as a textbook for commercial law teaching, as well as a reading material for general readers to understand and master commercial law or a specific area of commercial law.