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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.
List of contents
- 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
About the author
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.
Summary
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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[A] thought-provoking text which will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students in partnership law, the law of trusts, or the history of commercial and company law in England.
