PrF:SOC024 Bills of Exchange in Europe - Course Information
SOC024 Bills of Exchange in Europe
Faculty of LawAutumn 2008
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. JUDr. Josef Kotásek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. JUDr. Josef Kotásek, Ph.D.
Department of Commercial Law – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: prof. JUDr. Josef Bejček, CSc. - Prerequisites
- No special requirements
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Multidisciplinary studies (programme CST, KOS)
- Multidisciplinary studies (programme PrF, KOS)
- Course objectives
- Main objective can be summarized as follows: to understand basic principles of commercial papers (especially Promissory notes and Bills of exchange) in Europe; to delineate the major differences between Anglo-american and European system; to interpret basic rules concerning commercial paper (e.g. holder in due course doctrine). The students should be able to use both instruments in practice.
- Syllabus
- Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes
- Issue and Form of a Bill of Exchange and Promissory Notes
- Endorsement
- Acceptance
- Aval
- Maturity of bill of exchange and Promissory Note
- Payment
- Recourse of Non-Acceptance or Non-Payment
- Alterations
- Limitation of Actions
- Provisions of International Bill Law
- Literature
- KOTÁSEK, Josef. Bill of Exchange Law. Elportál. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2007. ISSN 1802-128X. URL info
- KOTÁSEK, Josef. Bill of Exchange Law : multimediální učební text (Bill of Exchange Law). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2005, 81 pp. (Edice multimediálních pomůcek PrF MU ; č. 16). ISBN 80210-3869-1. info
- Assessment methods
- Active class discussion, essay
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
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