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Debt as power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet the demands of creditors and investors. The book is distinctive in offering a historically sensitive and comprehensive analysis of debt as an interconnected and global phenomenon. Rather than focusing on the historical emergence of debt as a moral obligation, the authors argue that debt under capitalism can be conceived of as a technology of power, intimately tied up with the requirement for perpetual growth and the differential capitalization that benefits ‘the 1%’. Their account begins with the recognition that the histories of human communities and their natural environment are interconnected in complex spatial and hierarchical relations of power and to understand their development we need to not only examine the particularities of a given case, but more importantly their interconnected, interdependent and international relations. Since debt under capitalism is increasingly ubiquitous at all levels of society and economic growth is now the sole mantra of dominant political parties around the world, the authors argue that tracing the evolution and transformation of debt as a technology of power is crucial for understanding the ‘present as history’ and possible alternatives to our current trajectory.

Capitalism. --- Credit. --- Debt. --- debt --- global economy --- investors --- creditors --- capitalism --- inequality

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"Reinventing Bankruptcy Law explodes conventional wisdom about the history of the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act and in its place offers the first historical account of Canada's premier corporate restructuring statute. The book adopts a novel research approach that combines legal history, socio-legal theory, ideas from political science, and doctrinal legal analysis. Meticulously researched and multi-disciplinary, Reinventing Bankruptcy Law provides a comprehensive and concise history of CCAA law over the course of the twentieth century, framing developments within broader changes in Canadian institutions including federalism, judicial review, and statutory interpretation. Examining the influence of private parties and commercial practices on lawmaking, Virginia Torrie argues that CCAA law was shaped by the commercial needs of powerful creditors to restructure corporate borrowers, providing a compelling thesis about the dynamics of legal change in the context of corporate restructuring. Torrie exposes the errors in recent case law to devastating effect and argues that courts and the legislature have switched roles. This book is essential reading for the Canadian insolvency community as well as those interested in Canadian institutions, legal history, and the dynamics of change."--

Bankruptcy --- History. --- Canada. --- Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada) --- CCAA. --- bankruptcy and insolvency. --- bankruptcy. --- companies’ creditors arrangement act. --- corporate insolvency. --- corporate law. --- corporate restructuring. --- history of bankruptcy in Canada. --- insolvency. --- recursivity of law.

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Objeto de esta investigación que engloba Derecho romano, Ciencia jurídica alemana del siglo XIX, y Derecho civil actual, es el denominado “legatum debiti”. Disposición testamentaria en virtud de la cual el “de cuius” atribuye a su acreedor una cosa o cantidad en consideración de una deuda que con él tenía. Este trabajo pone de manifiesto que la construcción dogmática del "legatum debiti" tiene su fundamento en el Derecho romano; si bien no en las fuentes clásicas y justinianeas, sino en la elaboración que de éstas hizo la doctrina pandectística. Las razones que justificarían el recurso a esta figura jurídica por parte del testador: fines lícitos (introducir algún cambio en la relación obligatoria que se traducía en una ventaja para el acreedor; purificación de la obligación que se debía a condición o término; sustitución de la acción honoraria por acción civil; renuncia implícita a una excepción, o exigibilidad inmediata o en lugar más conveniente para el acreedor). Fines ilícitos (favorecer a través del testamento a alguien que, de otro modo, no habría podido heredar-vulneración leyes caducarías y Falcidia-). Se analizan, asimismo, los tratados de Pandectas, tanto de autores pertenecientes a la primera generación de alumnos de Savigny, como de otros pertenecientes a la ciencia jurídica alemana de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Se concluye aludiendo a la inexistencia en el BGB de alusión alguna al "legado de deuda" pese a su influencia pandectística.

Claims against decedents' estates (Roman law). --- Legacies (Roman law). --- Law --- Roman law --- Philosophy. --- Reception. --- Creditors --- Wills and legacies --- Acreedores --- Inheritance --- Testamento y legados --- Sucesiones

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This work guides the reader through every stage of debt recovery, from deciding to take action to serving a claim and the trial itself. It deals comprehensively with enforcing judgement and features sections on bankruptcy, winding up receivership and administration.

Collecting of accounts - Great Britain. --- Debtor and creditor. --- Law - Non-U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Law - Great Britain --- Debt relief. --- Debt relief --- Debt renegotiation --- Debt rescheduling --- Debt restructuring --- Relief, Debt --- Renegotiation, Debt --- Rescheduling, Debt --- Restructuring, Debt --- Creditor --- Debtor and creditor --- Law and legislation --- Commercial law --- Contracts --- Obligations (Law) --- Credit --- Creditors' bills --- Fraudulent conveyances --- Liens --- Payment --- Security (Law)

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The goal of this collection is to explore debt neither as a problem nor a solution but as a phenomenon and to promote the exchange of knowledge to better comprehend why consumers and businesses decide to borrow money. It asks what happens to businesses and consumers under a heavy debt load, and what legal norms and institutions societies need to encourage the efficient use of debt while promoting a greater understanding of the global phenomenon of increased indebtedness and societal dependence.

Debtor and creditor --- Bankruptcy --- Debt --- Law - Non-U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Law - Great Britain --- Social aspects --- Indebtedness --- Cessio bonorum --- Insolvency --- Privileged debts --- Creditor --- Law and legislation --- Finance --- Business failures --- Commercial law --- Contracts --- Obligations (Law) --- Credit --- Creditors' bills --- Fraudulent conveyances --- Liens --- Payment --- Security (Law)