By Geoffrey Gardiner
Jurists have demonstrated that every right must have a corresponding duty, or it is worthless.
The same is true of financial assets: for every creditor there has to be a debtor.
Money is assignable debt. The debt should be negotiable, that is it can be transferred to another owner without reference to the knowledge of the debtor.
There are primary debt and secondary debt. An example of primary debt is when a borrower draws down a bank loan by making a payment to someone. That someone pays the money received into a bank account, thus creating the credit which finances the loan. New money has been created.
