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8 - A Broker’s Advice

Credit Networks and Mortgage Risk in the Eighteenth-Century Empire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2020

Michael Lobban
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Ian Williams
Affiliation:
University College London
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This chapter analyzes the development of the mortgage among the new market practices, and new financial instruments, that were critical to the growth of the “empire of credit” stretching across the eighteenth-century Atlantic. The mortgage was an especially important part of this new credit economy because it lay at the nexus between landed and commercial wealth, and played a generative role in financing improvement and diversification. It is not surprising, then, that mortgage law, as a critical component of finance and credit relations, saw real development in this same period. This essay compares and connects the work of brokers, lawyers, and judges who constructed and evaluated mortgage deals, and examines the transmission and testing of the doctrine of the equity of redemption. Particular attention is paid to challenges to the operation of mortgage doctrine in Ireland, and other parts of the British empire, and what these signify for the broader history of legal and economic development in the eighteenth century.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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