Scotland: The Law of Cautionary Obligations

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This chapter discusses suretyship contracts in Scottish banking practice. Topics covered include commercial suretyships and consumer suretyships, suretyships and indebtedness of individuals and families, unfair suretyships of non-professional guarantors, laws for surety protection, impact on the guarantor's position of changes in the debtor-creditor relationship, the most effective means of protection for non- professional sureties, and proposals to improve the protection of non-professional sureties.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRegulating Unfair Banking Practices in Europe : The Case of Personal Suretyships
EditorsAurelia Colombi Ciacchi, Stephen Weatherill
Number of pages13
Place of PublicationOxford
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date01.01.2011
Edition1.
Pages493-505
ISBN (print)978-0-19-959455-9
ISBN (electronic)9780191595714
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Publication statusPublished - 01.01.2011

    Research areas

  • Commercial law - Scottish banking, suretyships, debtors, creditors, guarantors, surety protection, consumer protection law, obligations and contracts, family law
  • Law