"Credit card" means a card or device issued under an arrangement pursuant to which a card issuer gives to a cardholder the privilege of obtaining credit from the card issuer or other person in purchasing or leasing property or services, obtaining loan...
"Credit card" means a card or device issued under an arrangement pursuant to which a card issuer gives to a cardholder the privilege of obtaining credit from the card issuer or other person in purchasing or leasing property or services, obtaining loans, or otherwise. The legal features of credit card include the ones such as credit instrument non-valuable instrument, provable instrument-responsibility exempted instrument, presentative · non-withdrawal instrument and exclusive attachment in a person. Its positive legal effect is to offer card holders services of cash substitution, credit offering, and foreign card use. And the credit card chain stores are given advantage of sales amount raising from promoting sales. However there are also negative effects such as causing an excessive consumption, inflation emergence and increase in household burden, complex system in transaction, over-issue of credit card and increasing the crimes from its use around this system. The lands of credit cards are a two party card·a three party card, a card paid in a single sum·a card paid in installments·a revolving card, a domestic card·an international card, and a limited purpose card·multi-purpose card. The origin of credit card was travelers' checks and the first practice of this system was credit coin. The development of credit card system has been carried out from the stage of two-party card to three-party card, and it is in the stage of bank credit card, now.
The central contents of credit card contract lie in repaying the expense from using cards, and it is devided into diverse opinions among scholars. Repaying the expense is performed in this way that the credit card issuers substitutes to pay the credit card chain shops for the amount from card holder's use of it at first, and then the issuers claims the card holder for compensating it. In this case, an important problem is how to define the nature of such type of payment legally and its opinions are diverse among countries. Related with this, this country follows Japanese example, which is a cumulative obligation acceptance theory attached to advanced payment compensation theory. To substitute a card holder's obligation needs that the holder must obey to the execution of repay claiming right by card-issuer. What is important is that a reward for joining in the card system is to secure all the rights on contract law with only credit. Now that the credit card members' participation in the system is to result from the card issuer's active declarations of justice, it is natural that the credit card members' protesting right should be secured as should be the case about the credit card chain shops in the system.
The stipulation for credit card members has been improved in many ways, thus the probability that the credit card holders should be responsible for the damage emerged from a third person's illegal use of credit card has been decreased substantially. But the responsibility for such an illegal use sill leaves in a large degree to the credit card holders, and this means that the way to compensate for the of damage such as an insurance limit. So the credit card issuers should pursuit a rational division of responsibility above the limit, and at the same time, they should announce clearly the risk of misuse to the credit card holders by means of presenting pamphlets. And lawyers should create the analysis theories should show concern to the aspect of security most of all than to convenience from using it. In order to achieve this, card users should clearly recognize the implication of stipulation by considerate reading, especially the article about an illegal card use. If many holders carry out this, the credit card system will be advanced toward the direction of more security attaining.
Being related to the above, the act of credit card should be improved toward the direction to imply the followings. The content should be based upon five primary principles such as controlling the excessive loan offering, clarifying the contractual relationships among the credit card holders-card chain stores·card issuers, clarifying the division of responsibility for an illegal user of card, clarifying the supervisory authorities and clarifying the administrational responsibility for credit information.
In addition, the introduction of the signless credit card system can be examined, which is being used in small scale buying at and it has been proved that selling total amount has increased 20%.