meysam rameshi; homayuon mafi; rasool bahrampoori
Abstract
Letter of credit, as an international payment instrument that is now widely used by traders in the international trade, has always been used as a reliable means of safeguarding the interests and rights of contract parties. Despite the widespread use of this payment instrument, businessmen and activists ...
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Letter of credit, as an international payment instrument that is now widely used by traders in the international trade, has always been used as a reliable means of safeguarding the interests and rights of contract parties. Despite the widespread use of this payment instrument, businessmen and activists in the international trade pay less attention to its nature and source of the obligations in this international payment instrument. This Study examines the legal nature of Letters of Credit and views on this subject in light of the regulations in a descriptive-analytical manner. Legal scholars have offered different views on the legal analysis of the nature of the letter of credit and the source of its obligations. Although, some authors, considering the differences between the nature of letter of credit and contracts and negotiable instruments, believe that letter of credit should be analyzed as an international payment instrument with an independent and unique nature, however, Most of these views are based on contract law and have analyzed the nature of the letter of credit in the contract nature, that this view is more consistent with the accepted principles of the Iranian legal system.
