The World’s History Of The Bankruptcy Institute. Part II

In this part we continue talking about the Institute of inconsistency and hope this information can be very useful for you.

After falling of Roman Empire the inconsistency institute has had the big development in medieval Italy. High degree of development of trade relations which was the characteristic of the Italian cities of that time, demanded the developed competitive legislation. The Italian statutes of that time contained at times the whole sections devoted to an inconsistency. The inconsistency institute in medieval Italy the was used mostly in trading sphere as it was caused by trade turnover requirements. There were special trading courts where judges were elective from the circle of the merchants. Nevertheless intervention of court did not eliminate a special role of creditors in the course of an inconsistency.

The inconsistency announcement could follow under own initiative of the debtor, or on request of the creditors or the court. The property of the poor debtor was arrested and transferred under the control of the select committee of creditors. The medieval Italian right has created a way of phase-out which was unknown to Rome: the world transaction of the debtor with creditors. Conditions of similar transactions were strongly differed in various cities: for example, the quantity of creditors demanded for the statement of the transaction, could be relative or absolute. The world transaction was made in some cities with the assistance of the court. In time, the bankruptcy procedure got more and more accurate remedial rules. Since 1543 in England there was a necessity to prove the terminations of the payments for inconsistency acknowledgement, and also the period of time for finding-out of an economic situation of the debtor was made up. In XVII – XIX centuries with the development of trade and a private property in Europe there was an expansion of application of procedure of bankruptcy on representatives of any estate.

Only by the beginning of the XVIII-th century in the English legal system for the first time in the world was generated the understanding of what the diligent bankrupt promoting the full indemnification of the losses of creditors, could count on a pardon of not paid debts, as has found the legislative approval by the statute of 1705. From now on the criminal liability at unintentional bankruptcy has been eliminated.

The newest development of the legislation is characterized by the increase of a role of regenerative, or rehabilitation procedures which have the aim to rebuild the solvency of the debtor. The important stage on this way was acceptance the Code bankruptcy (Bankruptcy Code) in 1978 in the USA, established ample opportunities for using of institute of reorganization of the insolvent debtor.
The above given facts can be very useful to understand the deep history of Bankruptcy.

Almost all of us remember the times when it was possible to buy a thing even if one had not enough money. Loan was a simple way out. No wonder that now many of those who applied for a credit, are searching for how to avoid bankruptcy.

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