axelrod:
the US at one time had a rule that wrongful dishonor of a check by a bank was a 'slander' of credit, and could entitle any merchant depositor to substantial general damages i always supposed that rule, like any other quaintly phrased, originated in england-- as relief from the constrictive specific rule mentioned in HADLEY--that interest was the exclusive measure of damages for breach of a contract to pay money--and that it arose during an era--happily past according to most members of this restitution group?-- when the english bench and bar were ACTIVELY engaged in the manipulation of doctrine??. .