Andreas Televantos

Capitalism Before Corporations

The Morality of Business Associations and the Roots of Commercial Equity and Law

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Produktbeschreibung

The book examines the extent to which English law facilitated trade before it was possible to create corporations for purely private business purposes. It looks at the extent to which the common law recognised the associational rights of business persons, and its relation with contemporary moral and economic thinking.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780198870340
• ISBN-10: 0198870345
• Artikelnr.: 61179818

Autorenporträt

Andreas Televantos is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford Law Faculty, and the Hanbury Fellow and Tutor in Law at Lincoln College. His research focusses on trusts, fiduciaries, equitable remedies, and legal history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1: Regency era business structures
1: Partnership as organisational law
2: The use of trusts in business structures
Part 2: Binding business assets
3.: Ostensible authority and the ordinary course of business
4.: Judicial resistance to merchant demands, factors and paternalism in the King's Bench
5.: The authority of trustees and executors
Part 3: Business failure, risk, and insolvency distribution
6.: Trusts and the risk of bankruptcy
7.: Partnership dissolution and bankruptcy
Conclusion
Appendix
Glossary