The Insolvent Laws of Massachusetts
Author: Joseph Cutler
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 252
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Author: Joseph Cutler
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 252
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 250
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas H. Jackson
Publisher: Beard Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781587981142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA careful analysis of the fundamentals of bankruptcy law.
Author: Louis Edward Levinthal
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bruce H Mann
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0674040546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDebt was an inescapable fact of life in early America. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, its sinfulness was preached by ministers and the right to imprison debtors was unquestioned. By 1800, imprisonment for debt was under attack and insolvency was no longer seen as a moral failure, merely an economic setback. In Republic of Debtors, authorBruce H. Mann illuminates this crucial transformation in early American society.
Author: S. Elizabeth Gibson
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 178
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Francis Hilliard
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2021-10-29
Total Pages: 662
ISBN-13: 3752524804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1867.
Author: Peter J. Coleman
Publisher: Beard Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 189312214X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmericans 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.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David A. Skeel Jr.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-04-24
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1400828503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBankruptcy 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.