Elizabethan Literature and the Law of Fraudulent Conveyance: Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare

by Charles Stanley Ross

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 wide-spread cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138378747
• ISBN13: 9781138378742
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"