When PayPal launched its online payment service and set out to overhaul global currency markets it successfully weathered the dot-com bust and a fierce competitive struggle with the auction giant eBay. But hordes of government regulators, trial lawyers, and organized crime rings soon targeted PayPal for destruction, turning its quest to make Internet history into a desperate struggle for survival.

Product Description: With humor and wit, James Brook writes clear and engaging introductions to the concepts and sources of payment systems, along with examples and explanations that illustrate their application. Examples & Explanations: Payment Systems, now in its Fourth Edition, provides a complete overview of its subject and the proven-effective Examples & Explanations pedagogy that allows students to test their knowledge and practice applying the law...read more

Product Description: Provides law students with an in-depth introduction to the UCC without burdening them with unnecessary detail. Citations have been used to enable the reader to understand the kinds of cases that might be presented under particular provisions of the Code...read more

Product Description: Mastering Negotiable Instruments (UCC Articles 3 and 4) and Other Payment Systems explains the essential concepts in the law governing payment systems. The book focuses primarily on the prototypical payment systems that for centuries have used negotiable instruments: notes, checks, and other types of drafts...read more

Product Description: This book introduces you to the complex rules governing modern payment methods. Using a hypothetical transaction, the book illustrates the applicable laws governing the various methods of making payment for property and services, and includes research resources, checklists form, etc...read more

Product Description: With over 100 million users, PayPal has more accounts than Discover and American Express combined. Since its inception in 1998, PayPal has quickly grown to become the global standard for online payments and is constantly expanding into new countries, languages, and currencies...read more

Product Description: Using the proven Examples & Explanations format, Examples & Explanations: Payment Systems, Third Edition, provides students with a clear, engaging introduction to the principles of Payment Systems. The author, who brings extensive writing and teaching experience to the task, uses well-written and interesting examples, as well as relevant visual aids, to illustrate how these principles apply in typical situations...read more

Product Description: Explains the fundamentals of negotiable instruments—promissory notes, drafts, checks, and certificates of deposit. Provides an overview of Article 3’s requisites of negotiability. Reviews contract liability, secondary liability conditions, and discharge liability...read more

Product Description: This book constitutes a current discussion of the law governing promissory notes, drafts, and other means of payment, except for cash. It is designed for the judge and the practicing attorney. Subjects covered include methods of payment and evidences of debt, negotiable instruments, defenses to and discharge of liability, Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Articles 4 and 4A, and non-UCC payment systems...read more

This Understanding treatise provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject matter covered by Articles 3, 4 & 4A of the Uniform Commercial Code and by relevant provisions of the Truth in Lending Act, and Fair Credit Billing Act, the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, and Regulations E, J, Z, and CC. A primary focus is directed toward the law of negotiable instruments and of bank deposits and collections. The author also address the existing legal regimes that govern payments made in all forms, including checks and other drafts, cash, credit card, automated clearinghouses, automated teller machines, debit cards, and wholesale fund transfer.

Provides sample forms and letters and step-by-step instructions for finding and negotiating the best student loan repayment plan, postponing payments, avoiding or getting out of default, and dealing with private school loans, (view table of contents)

Discusses how to negotiate a repayment plan, avoid default, qualify for loan cancelation, and postpone payments (view table of contents)