New Perspectives on the Negotiable Instruments Law: Revised Edition

Author: Liang Yuxian
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: Commercial transactions prioritize simplicity, fairness, agility, certainty, and security, which serve as the theoretical foundation of commercial law. This, in turn, determines that commercial law itself possesses characteristics such as being both private and public law, technical, profitable, international, coordinating, and progressive. This book includes: the significance of negotiable instruments law, the nature of negotiable instruments law, the evolution of negotiable instruments and their law, the evolution of negotiable instruments, the historical development of negotiable instruments law, the trend toward unification of negotiable instruments law, the economic utility of negotiable instruments, the legal relationships of negotiable instruments, an overview of negotiable acts, blank endorsements, agency in negotiable acts, defects of negotiable instruments, an overview of negotiable rights, the acquisition of negotiable rights, the exercise and preservation of negotiable rights, defenses to negotiable instruments, loss of negotiable instruments, the statute of limitations for negotiable instruments, the right of recourse for lost negotiable instruments, the allonge (endorsement on the back of a note), and bills of exchange, including issuance, acceptance, participation in acceptance, and guarantee.