American negotiable instruments law was more advanced than England’s

Evidence

In the colonies, as we have seen, the law of negotiable instruments was in some ways more advanced than in England. This carried over into the Republican period. A Georgia statute of 1799 declared that “All bonds, and other specialties, and promissory notes, and other liquidated demands … whether for money or other things … shall be negotiable by endorsement in such manner and under such restrictions as are prescribed in the case of promissory notes.” — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 1578

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Early American commercial law was framed as international rather than parochial — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 1539; American courts embraced western miners’ customs over English common-law doctrines — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 976; Colonies codified law because the uncodified common law was not packaged for export — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 488

Broader Connections

• American courts embraced western miners’ customs over English common-law doctrines #corroborates (0.75) — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 976
• Colonies codified law because the uncodified common law was not packaged for export #complicates (0.72) — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 488