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Title

Security for debt in ancient Near Eastern law / edited by Raymond Westbrook and Richard Jasnow.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001.

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Additional Authors

• Westbrook, Raymond.
• Jasnow, Richard

Description

vi, 360 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

Creditors have always sought the protection of the law to secure themselves against loss if the debtor cannot or will not pay the debt. This volume examines the legal instruments of security available to creditors in the earliest known legal systems, their use and abuse, and the ways in which the law sought to satisfy the differing interests of creditors, debtors, and society in general, with varying degrees of success. The book covers all the major legal systems of the ancient Near East, from Sumer to Ptolemaic Egypt, as well as comparative historical developments up to the present day. Twelve scholars have each contributed a study of their special period of expertise, while the general issues that arise from their research are discussed in a concluding chapter.

Series Statement

Culture and history of the ancient Near East, 1566-2055 ; v. 9

Uniform Title

Culture and history of the ancient Near East v. 9.

Subject

• To 1500
• Law, Ancient > Middle East
• Debtor and creditor > Middle East
• Law > Middle East
• Security (Law) > Middle East
• Security (Law) > Middle East > History > To 1500
• Law, Ancient

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History

Note

• Conference proceedings of the second occasional colloquium of the Society for the study of Ancient Near Eastern law held March 19-20, 2000 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

ISBN

9004121242 (hd.bd.)

OCLC

47712440

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library