Credit Titles

Recommended Prerequisites

Commercial Law – General Principles of Civil Law – Contract Law - Procedural Law

Teaching Methods

The teacher will give lectures about the subjects, which students will then be invited to discuss. Some previous preparation will be required from the students, based on texts and materials placed at their disposal (case law, statutes), in order to participate in the debate thal will take place in seminars.

Learning Outcomes

Students should acquire a comprehensive and critical view of the main issues concerning negotiable instruments, thus becoming able to place and solve any given practical question as well as to conveniently understand legal commands. The law governing negotiable instruments is to be understood as an intrinsic part of private law instead of a alien subject.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Preliminaries: historical evolution and contemporary state of the art

2. Rights and duties summoned by the bill

3. A critical overcoming of certain traditional assumptions

4. Problems concerning the aval

5.  Problems concerning inchoate instruments

6. Problems concerning accommodation parties

7. Problems concerning the intervention of banks as indorsees

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

CUNHA, CAROLINA, Manual de Letras e Livranças, Almedina, Coimbra, 2016 (reimp.)

• MARTINS, ALEXANDRE DE SOVERAL, Títulos de crédito e valores mobiliários, Parte I – Títulos de crédito, Volume I – I. Dos títulos de crédito em geral. II. A letra, Almedina, Coimbra, 2008

• ANTUNES, JOSÉ A. ENGRÁCIA, Os títulos de crédito. Uma introdução, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2012

CUNHA, CAROLINA, Letras e livranças: paradigmas actuais e recompreensão de um regime, Almedina, Coimbra, 2012