Francis Mann, who died in September 1991, was an outstanding international jurist and practising solicitor. His accolades included the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany, an honorary DCL from Oxford University, and being made an honorary QC and Bencher of Gray's Inn.

a book described by central bankers as "the Bible" of international monetary law.

• The concept of money; the monetary system, its organization and incidents; monetary obligations - types and payment, the extent of liquidated sums (nominalism), unliquidated amounts; methods of excluding the effects of nominalism; the general position of foreign money and foreign money obligations in English law; the determination of the money of account; the nominalistic principle, its scope, incidents and effects, the payment of foreign money obligations; the institutions of legal proceedings and its effect upon foreign money obligations; exchange control under the IMF Agreement; the private international law of exchange control; the valuation of foreign currencies; monetary sovereignty, its scope and its limitation; the protection of foreign currency systems; patterns of monetary organization; treaty rules of monetary conduct; the monetary law of inter-state obligations.

Francis Mann, who died in September 1991, was an outstanding international jurist and practising solicitor. His accolades included the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany, an honorary DCL from Oxford University, and being made an honorary QC and Bencher of Gray's Inn.

a book described by central bankers as "the Bible" of international monetary law.

• The concept of money; the monetary system, its organization and incidents; monetary obligations - types and payment, the extent of liquidated sums (nominalism), unliquidated amounts; methods of excluding the effects of nominalism; the general position of foreign money and foreign money obligations in English law; the determination of the money of account; the nominalistic principle, its scope, incidents and effects, the payment of foreign money obligations; the institutions of legal proceedings and its effect upon foreign money obligations; exchange control under the IMF Agreement; the private international law of exchange control; the valuation of foreign currencies; monetary sovereignty, its scope and its limitation; the protection of foreign currency systems; patterns of monetary organization; treaty rules of monetary conduct; the monetary law of inter-state obligations.