Title: Elizabethan literature and the law of fraudulent conveyance
First published: 2003
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Subjects: Law, History, Knowledge, Law and literature, Law in literature, English literature, Fraudulent conveyances, History and criticism, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, knowledge, law, English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, Droit dans la littérature, Droit et littérature, Histoire, Action en inopposabilité, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Early modern, Knowledge and learning
Places: Great Britain
People: Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), Philip Sidney Sir (1554-1586), William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Time periods: 17th century, 16th century, Early modern, 1500-1700
LC classification: PR428.L37 R67 2003