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Author Cranston, Ross, author.

Title Making commercial law through practice, 1830-1970 / Ross Cranston, London School of Economics and Political Science
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource
Series The law in context
Law in context.
Contents Commercial and legal context -- The commodity markets of London and Liverpool -- Agents, "agents" and agency -- Sale, hire, and the distribution of manufactured goods -- International commodity sales -- Bank finance for trade and industry
Summary "This book explores the functioning of commercial law within the context of commercial practice over the 140-year period from around 1830 until 1970, with an emphasis on the international dimensions. The focus is transactional, rather than institutional - commodity markets, agency, the trade in manufactured goods and "soft" commodities (grain, cotton, tea and so on), and the financing of trade and industry. As a study in law in context it is not a doctrinal history, although there is a considerable amount of doctrine to digest. A key feature of the relevant doctrinal law is that it furnished a broad framework in which commercial parties could make their own rules and regulations and design their own institutions. The upshot was that in this broad sense commercial practice was the source of commercial law"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Commercial law -- England -- History
Commercial law -- Wales -- History
Commodity exchanges -- Law and legislation -- England -- History
Agency (Law) -- England -- History
Agency (Law)
Commercial law
Commodity exchanges -- Law and legislation
Wales
England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021024647
ISBN 9781108182836
1108182836
9781108196109
1108196101
9781316648377
1316648370