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A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts and Other Publications on Paper Currency and Banking (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

McCulloch, J. R.

 
9781330834619: A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts and Other Publications on Paper Currency and Banking (Classic Reprint)

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With the exception of the period from 1797 down to 1819 the paper currency of Great Britain has always been con vertible at pleasure into an equivalent amount of coin of the standard weight and purity. Our bank-notes are not, strictly speaking, money, but only substitutes for money. Inasmuch, however, as no doubt is entertained of their immediate con vertibility into coins, and as they perform some of the principal functions of the latter, and are in many respects more commodious, they are practically held to be money. TO use the words of Lord Mansfield these notes are not, like bills Of exchange, mere securities or documents for debts, nor are so esteemed; but are treated as money in the ordinary course and transactions of business, by the general consent Of mankind; and on payment of them whenever a receipt is required, the receipts are always given as for money not as for securities or notes.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts and Other Publications on Paper Currency and Banking

With the exception of the period from 1797 down to 1819 the paper currency of Great Britain has always been con vertible at pleasure into an equivalent amount of coin of the standard weight and purity. Our bank-notes are not, strictly speaking, money, but only substitutes for money. Inasmuch, however, as no doubt is entertained of their immediate con vertibility into coins, and as they perform some of the principal functions of the latter, and are in many respects more commodious, they are practically held to be money. TO use the words of Lord Mansfield these notes are not, like bills Of exchange, mere securities or documents for debts, nor are so esteemed; but are treated as money in the ordinary course and transactions of business, by the general consent Of mankind; and on payment of them whenever a receipt is required, the receipts are always given as for money not as for securities or notes.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts and Other Publications on Paper Currency and Banking

This collection, of the most valuable of the English tracts and publications on paper currency and banks, may be regarded as supplementary to the volume of tracts on metallic currency, printed for the Political Economy Club. It does not, however, contain any tract having especial reference to paper money, properly so-called, that is, to notes which are legal tender without being convertible at the pleasure of the holder into certain amounts of coin. The value of this variety of paper currency depends on the extent to which it may be issued compared with the demand, or rather with the business it has to perform. Whether those by whom it is issued are in good or bad credit is immaterial. It obtains currency by its issuers having power to make it legal tender; and nothing more is required to sustain its value than that it should be issued in moderate quantities. The value of the assignats issued during the French Revolution was at first nearly equal to that of metallic money; but the quantities of them thrown into circulation being rapidly and enormously increased, their value proportionally declined, till in the end they became all but worthless. And such has invariably been the case wherever inconvertible paper notes have been made legal tender.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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