Origine et développement du billet à ordre en France
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Abstract EN:
The promissory note is born during the last years of the xviith century but it has very remote roots. Its near origin is still uncertain. Three patterns are possible for its creation, the most suitable has also the less juridical background. Its regulations seems to come from these which are ruling the bill of exchange, but as the promissory note is the successor of the ancient private acknowledgement of debt beetwen traders we try to show that their laws are common. The harshness of the law on protest and the new forms taken by the various means of credit and payment bring to a deployment of several kinds of promissory note but with reduced securities.
Abstract FR:
Le billet a ordre remonte aux dernieres annees du xviie siecle mais ses origines sont tres lointaines. Son origine proche demeure incertaine. Trois schemas de creation sont possibles. Le plus probable est aussi le moins juridique. Il semble tirer son droit de celui de la lettre de change mais si l'on considere qu'il est le successeur de la reconnaissance de dette sous seing prive entre commercants, il puisse en fait dans un patrimoine commun. Le rigueur de la loi sur les protets, l'informatique et les formes nouvelles des moyens de credit et de paiement conduisent a un deploiement des types d'effets de commerce mais cela se fait au detriment des garanties.