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The Against Timocrates (Dem. 24)
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Mirko Canevaro
Published: 18 July 2013
... syndikoi thesmothetai Brut 20 20 91 Council enactment formulas motion formula prytany 24 17 29 138 140 244 320 445 447 26 72 52 104 P Stras βουλόμενος ὁ διαχειροτονία 24 19 24 24–32 24 24 24 25 24 34–9 24 39–67 judges Eccl 24 26 355 39–40 Davies Gilbert A debtor proedroi...
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Creditors and debtors
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Chris Briggs
Published: 29 January 2009
...In the previous studies about medieval creditors and debtors, two main points were constant: 1) creditors tended to be richer than the debtors; and 2) creditors and debtors tended not to overlap; an individual is generally a borrower or a lender but not both. This chapter aims to evaluate...
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Economics of Bankruptcy
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Michelle J. White
Published: 06 June 2017
...Figure 18.1 The insurance effect of bankruptcy. Note: The diagram shows period 2 consumption on the vertical axis and period 2 wealth on the horizontal axis. Labor supply is assumed to be higher outside of bankruptcy than in bankruptcy. Debtors file for bankruptcy in regions 1 and 2 and avoid...
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A Matter of Credit: Husbands’ Claims
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Kirsten Sword
Published: 15 April 2021
... press Wood Ann elopement desertion common law coverture credibility liability debtors adultery domestic violence Blackstone's Commentaries' impact Ads of eloping wives became commonplace in the colonial newspapers by 1750, as did reports of England’s emerging practice of parliamentary divorce...
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Just a Germanic Tradition? The Cross-National Significance of Conservative Liberalism
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Kenneth Dyson
Published: 19 November 2020
... philosophy of political economy; religion; state tradition; state- and nation-building; parties and party systems; events and crises; net creditors and net debtors; international structure of power and Americanization; and networking though university patronage, think tanks, and media dissemination...
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Published: 23 May 2024
... on distress, insolvency, and the likelihood of insolvency. It explains how enterprises may be in distress during their operations for various reasons, such as uncompetitive products or services. Once the insolvency process begins, it will have a significant impact on creditors, debtors, and debtor’s employees...
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Published: 20 June 2013
...This chapter addresses the question of whether a debt can be discharged by a payment of a third party who is not obliged to pay. When a debtor is under an obligation towards his creditor and a third party offers to pay or to perform instead of the debtor, three questions arise: Is the creditor...
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Trusts and the Risk of Bankruptcy
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Andreas Televantos
Published: 03 December 2020
... facilitated by improving traders' capacity to pursue their rational self-interest: by acting as a surrogate for a charge or mortgage over personal property. The chapter examines how traders could use trusts to avoid the risk of their debtors' insolvency in three stages. It first examines why and how...
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Published: 08 October 2009
... mercantile 5 50 manufacturers 7 110 mechanics 14 160 agriculturians 20 150 trade 19 200 labourers 25 Figure 6.2. The legal process for the collection of debts: opportunities for the debtor. Figure 6.3. Annual commitments...
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Belgium
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Vincent Sagaert
Published: 19 August 2010
... on the guarantor's position of changes in the debtor-creditor relationship, the most effective means of protection for non-professional sureties, and proposals to improve the protection of non-professional sureties. The high level of protection accorded to non-professional guarantors does...
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Finland
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Tuulikki Mikkola
Published: 19 August 2010
... on the guarantor's position of changes in the debtor-creditor relationship, the most effective means of protection for non-professional sureties, and proposals to improve the protection of non-professional sureties. In banking practice it is common to ask for suretyships...
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Poland
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Inga Łobocka
Published: 19 August 2010
... on the guarantor's position of changes in the debtor-creditor relationship, the most effective means of protection for non-professional sureties, and proposals to improve the protection of non-professional sureties. As pointed out above, in the Polish legal system, most consumer protection...
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Spain
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Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell
Published: 19 August 2010
... on the guarantor's position of changes in the debtor-creditor relationship, the most effective means of protection for non-professional sureties, and proposals to improve the protection of non-professional sureties. The regulation setting geometrically reveals...
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Sweden
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Annina H Persson
Published: 19 August 2010
... on the guarantor's position of changes in the debtor-creditor relationship, the most effective means of protection for non-professional sureties, and proposals to improve the protection of non-professional sureties. The need for a reform of the institute of suretyships has been...
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Conclusion: Debtor Politics in the Twenty-First Century
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Emily Zackin and Chloe N. Thurston
Published: 21 June 2024
...This chapter examines the resurgence of debtor mobilization since 2008. Emerging after the Global Financial Crisis and again during the COVID pandemic, new debtors’ organizations have emerged to advocate for the extension of debt relief and the strengthening of the social safety net. While...
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Defining “Illegitimate Debt”: When Creditors Should Be Liable for Improper Loans
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Joseph Hanlon
Published: 01 April 2006
... creditors debtors payment loans dictatorships money laundering “Certainly the people of Iraq shouldn't be saddled with those debts incurred through the regime of the dictator who is now gone,” said U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow in April 2003. 1 The U.S. financier George Soros agreed...
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The Common Law of Colonial America: Volume I: The Chesapeake and New England 1607-1660
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William E. Nelson
Published: 01 September 2008
... to imagine that all thirteen participated in a common American legal order, which diverged in its details but differed far more substantially from English common law. This book reveals how Virginians' zeal for profit led to the creation of a harsh legal order that efficiently squeezed payment out of debtors...
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Consumer Bankruptcy Reform and the Heuristic Borrower
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Susan Block-Lieb and Edward J Janger
Published: 09 November 2006
... explores whether the picture of the paradigmatic debtor they paint is empirically accurate. It shows that the factual assertions that ostensibly motivated the Bankruptcy Bill are belied by data and the consumer credit industry's own behaviour. It suggests an alternate story that is both more plausible...
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Published online: 23 May 2024
Published in print: 25 October 2023
...This book explores the cause of debtors’ rights in the United States after the Civil War. It considers how a range of reformers drew potent analogies between slavery, imprisonment for debt, and the experiences of wage garnishment and property foreclosure. It traces how those analogies were used...
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Uncontested Legal Practices
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William E. Nelson
Published: 24 May 2018
... as chattels. The chapter also discusses developments in the law of property and the law of debtor-creditor. disallowance by Privy Council federalism Parliament Privy Council chancery prerogative courts religion vice admiralty Anglicans Delaware Dunmore Lord Dutch Reformed Church James II...
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