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    The principles of personal property law / Duncan Sheehan.

    • Title:The principles of personal property law / Duncan Sheehan.
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    • Author/Creator:Sheehan, Duncan.
    • Published/Created:Oxford, UK ; Portland, OR : Hart Pub., ©2011.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Personal property--England.
      Personal property--Wales.
    • Description:xlv, 438 p. ; 24 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781841133164
      1841133167
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Basic Concepts of Personal Property Law
      I. Introduction
      II. What is a Property Right?
      III. Subdividing Personal Property: Different Types of Asset
      IV. Ownership, Possession and Legal Title
      A. Ownership
      B. Possession
      C. Legal Title
      V. Equitable Title under a Trust
      A. What is a Trust?
      B. Creation of an Express Trust
      VI. Original Modes of Acquisition
      A. Legal Title
      B. Equitable Title
      VII. Conclusion
      2. Transfer of Legal Title to Choses in Possession I
      I. Introduction
      II. Passage of Property under Sale of Goods Act 1979
      A. Classification
      B. Sale of Specific Goods
      C. Unascertained Goods
      D. Reservation of the Right of Disposal
      III. Deed
      IV. Delivery
      A. Transferring Possession
      B. Intention
      V. Conclusion
      3. Transfer of Legal Title to Choses in Possession II: The Nemo Dat Rule
      I. Introduction
      II. Exceptions to Nemo Dat
      A. Estoppel
      B. Factors Act 1889 section 2
      C. Voidable Title
      D. Sale under a Power of Sale
      E. Sale by a Seller or Buyer in Possession
      F. Hire Purchase Act 1964
      III. Overreaching
      IV. Conclusion
      4. Assignment of Legal Choses in Action
      I. Introduction
      II. Statutory (Legal) Assignment
      A. What can be Assigned?
      B. Writing and Notice Requirements
      III. Equitable Assignment
      A. Joinder
      B. Requirements of Equitable Assignment
      IV. Rules Common to both Equitable and Statutory Assignment
      A. `Subject to Equities'
      B. Priorities
      V. Non-Assignable Choses in Action
      A. Non-Assignability in Law
      B. Non-Assignability by Contract
      VI. Conclusion
      5. Transfer or Disposition of Subsisting Equitable Interests
      I. Introduction
      II. Five Scenarios: When is Writing Required?
      A. `Plain Vanilla' Case
      B. Directions to the Trustee to Hold on Trust
      C. Contracts for Valuable Consideration: Sales of Equitable Interests
      D. Express Sub-Trusts
      E. Vandervell Saga
      III. Surrender vs Disclaimer
      IV. Priorities
      V. Conclusion
      6. Negotiation and Negotiable Instruments
      I. Introduction
      II. What is a Negotiable Instrument?
      A. Examples of Negotiable Instrument
      B. Becoming a Negotiable Instrument
      III. Transfer and Operation of Bills of Exchange
      A. Transfer of a Bill of Exchange
      B. Liability and Enforcement
      IV. Negotiation of Bills of Lading
      V. Commercial Uses of Bills of Exchange
      A. Documentary and Negotiation Credits
      B. Electronic Bills of Exchange and Electronic Negotiation
      VI. Conclusion
      7. Defective Transfers and Payments
      I. Introduction
      II. Void Transfers
      III. Resulting Trusts
      A. Voluntary Conveyance and Purchase Money Trusts
      B. Automatic Resulting Trusts
      C. Basis for the Resulting Trust
      IV. Voidable Transfers
      A. Instances of Voidability
      B. Bars to Rescission
      C. What Type of Interest is a Power?
      V. Conclusion
      8. Protection of Legal Title via Tort Law
      I. Introduction
      II. Conversion
      A. What Property can be Converted?
      B. Acts Counting as Conversion
      C. Entitlement to Sue in Conversion
      D. Remedies
      III. Trespass to Goods
      A. Elements of Trespass
      B. Remedies
      IV. Replevin and Reversionary Injury
      V. Conclusion
      9. Protection of Equitable Title: Remedies for Misdirected Property
      I. Introduction
      II. Tracing
      A. Common Law Tracing
      B. Equitable Tracing
      C. Remedies
      D. Defences
      III. Basis for Proprietary Claims Contingent on Tracing
      A. Basis of the Claim: Property or Unjust Enrichment
      B. Unjust Factor
      IV. Subrogation
      V. Personal Claims
      A. Dishonest Assistance
      B. Knowing Receipt
      VI. Conclusion
      10. Bailment and Attornment
      I. Introduction
      II. What is Bailment?
      A. Prerequisites of Bailment
      B. Relationship between the Bailor and Bailee
      C. Termination of Bailment
      D. Rights against Third Parties
      E. Involuntary Bailees and Finders
      III. Attornment
      IV. Commercial Uses of Bailment
      A. Hire Purchase Agreements
      B. Financial Leases
      C. Carriage of Goods by Sea
      V. Is Bailment Necessary?
      VI. Conclusion
      11. Security Interests and Quasi-Security
      I. Introduction
      II. Credit and the Function of Security and Quasi-security
      III. Types of Security Interest
      IV. General Rules
      A. Attachment
      B. Perfection
      C. Priorities
      V. Reform
      VI. Quasi-security and the Relation with Security Interests
      A. Retention of Title Clauses
      B. Other Quasi-Security Interests
      VII. Conclusion
      12. Pledges and Liens
      I. Introduction
      II. Pledges
      A. Delivery
      B. Re-Delivery or Redemption
      C. Sale
      D. Pledgees' Relations with Third Parties
      III. Liens
      A. Lienholders' Rights against Third Parties
      B. Contractual Liens
      C. Common Law or Customary Liens
      D. Statutory Liens
      E. Equitable Liens
      IV. Conclusion
      13. Non-possessory Security Interests I: Mortgages and Bills of Sale
      I. Introduction
      II. What is a Mortgage?
      A. Legal Mortgages
      B. Equitable Mortgages
      III. Enforcement
      A. Foreclosure
      B. Sale
      C. Receivership
      D. Possession
      E. Enforcement of Bills of Sale
      IV. Conclusion
      14. Non-possessory Security Interests II: Charges
      I. Introduction
      II. Floating and Fixed Charges
      A. Determining whether a Charge is Fixed or Floating
      B. Importance of the Distinction
      III. Nature of the Floating Charge
      A. Licence Theory
      B. Defeasible Charge Theory
      C. Overreaching
      C. Power to Acquire a Persistent Right
      V. Remedies of the Chargee on Default
      A. Administrative Receivership
      B. Administration
      V. Reform
      A. Reform Proposals and UCC Article 9
      B. Abolition of the Floating Charge
      VI. Conclusion
      15. Concluding Observations.
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