Security for debt in ancient Near Eastern law
Security for debt in ancient Near Eastern law
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Edition Details
- Creator or Attribution (Responsibility): Richard Lewis Jasnow
- Language: English
- Jurisdiction(s): Netherlands
- Publication Information: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001
- Publication Type (Medium): History, Kongress
- Type: Book
- Series title: Culture and history of the ancient Near East, v. 9.
- Permalink: https://books.lawi.asia/security-for-debt-in-ancient-near-eastern-law/ (Stable identifier)
Short Description
VI, 360 pages ; 25 cm.
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Useful for students learning an area of law, Security for debt in ancient Near Eastern law is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.
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Bibliographic information
- Publisher: Brill
- Responsable Person: edited by Raymond Westbrook and Richard Jasnow.
- Publication Date: 2001
- Country/State: Netherlands
- Number of Editions: 8 editions
- First edition Date: 2001
- Last edition Date: 2001
- Languages: English
- Library of Congress Code: KL8160
- Dewey Code: 346.074
- ISBN: 9004121242 9789004121249
- OCLC: 47712440
Main Contents
I. Introduction / Raymond Westbrook
II. Comparative historical perspectives / Edward Tomlinson
Development of creditors' remedies in Medieval England
Bankruptcy as a creditor's remedy
Contemporary security devices
Conclusion
III. Pre-demotic pharaonic sources / Richard Jasnow
IV. The Ur III Period / Piotr Steinkeller
Appendix
V. The Old Babylonian Period / Raymond Westbrook
Pledge
Suretyship
Joint liability
Distraint
VI. The Old Assyrian Period / Klaas Veenhof
Introduction
Guarantee
Pledge
Other forms of security
VII. The Middle Assyrian Period / Kathleen Abraham
Introduction
The sources
Typology
Guarantor and joint liability
Instruments of security
Maturity and default
Other measures to satisfy the creditor
A socio-economic analysis of Middle Assyrian security
Appendices
VIII. Nuzi / Carlo Zaccagnini
IX. Emar / Aaron Skaist
X. Israel / Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Introduction
Secured loans
Results of delinquency
Remediation
Conclusion
XI. The Neo-Assyrian Period / Karen Radner
Prolegomena
Prior arrangement
Delinquency
Insolvency
XII. The Neo-Babylonian Period / Joachim Oelsner
Introduction
Case studies
Types of security
Appendix
XIII. Demotic papyri / Joseph Manning
XIV. Conclusions / Raymond Westbrook.