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Author Ross, Charles Stanley, author.

Title Elizabethan literature and the law of fraudulent conveyance : Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare / Charles Ross.

Publication Info. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource
Law language
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Originally published: Ashgate Publishing, 2003.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Falstaff's conveyances -- "Creditors and others": the purpose of 13 Eliz., c. 5 (1571) -- Carried away in Arcadia -- Purchase and consideration in Faerie queene IV and V -- Coke, collusion, and Twyne's case (1601) -- Shylock's penalty -- Conclusion.
Summary This book investigates the origins, impact, and outcome of the Elizabethan obsession with fraudulent conveyancing, the part of debtor-creditor law that determines when a court can void a transfer of assets. Focusing on the years between the passage of a key statute in 1571 and the court case that clarified the statute in 1601, Charles Ross convincingly argues that what might seem a minor matter in the law was in fact part of a widespread cultural practice. Debt was more pervasive than sex, at least in the English Common Law.
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Subject Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586 -- Knowledge and learning -- Law.
Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge and learning -- Law.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Knowledge and learning -- Law.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Law in literature.
Law in literature.
Law -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
Law.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Law -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Law and literature -- History -- 16th century.
Law and literature.
Law and literature -- History -- 17th century.
Fraudulent conveyances -- Great Britain.
Fraudulent conveyances.
Chronological Term 1500-1700
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Subject Law.
Other Form: 9780754632634 (hardback) 0754632636
ISBN 9781351940856 (electronic book)
1351940856 (electronic book)
9780754632634
9781315256702
1315256703