The Payment Order of Antiquity and the Middle Ages : A Legal History

Abstract

1. Money, Payment in Money, and the Order to Pay Money 2. Money and Monetary Legal Theory in Antiquity and the Middle Ages 3. Funds Transfers in Antiquity: Instruments, Institutions and Mechanisms 4. Deriving History from Law: Are Cheques Traceable to the Talmud? 5. The Payment Order under Roman Law 6. The Medieval Hawale: The Legal Nature of the Suftaj and Other Islamic Payment Instruments 7. Funds Transfers under Talmudic Law: Orthodoxy and Adaptation 8. Payment Orders in Medieval Continental Europe: Book Transfers and Bills of Exchange 9. Payment Orders under English Common Law: The Bailment of Money and the 'Reception' of the Bill of Exchange 10. Evolution and Transformation: The Birth of the Modern Payment System in Post-Medieval England 11. Turning the Wheels of Post-Medieval Change: Paper Circulation and Negotiability under English Law 12. Staying on Course: The Footprint of Ancient and Medieval Doctrine and Practice on Modern Payment Laws Epilogue: From Barter to Electronic Funds Transfers and the Role of Law