The English Hire-Purchase Act of 1938: A Measure to Regulate Instalment Selling

This booklet discusses the English Hire-Purchase Act of 1938 which dealt with restrictions on repossession, provisions for termination of agreements, requirements regarding the form and content of legal instruments, and the contracts to which the act was applicable. The booklet covers each of these topics and includes two appendixes: a chronology of the Hire-Purchase Bill and the text of the Hire-Purchase Act.

JOHN E. HAMM was assistant director of the Department of Consumer Credit Studies at the Russell Sage Foundation.