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The principles of personal property law / Duncan Sheehan.
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Title:The principles of personal property law / Duncan Sheehan.
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Author/Creator:Sheehan, Duncan.
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Published/Created:Oxford, UK ; Portland, OR : Hart Pub., ©2011.
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Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
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Call Number: KD1205 .S54 2011
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Personal property--England.
Personal property--Wales.
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Description:xlv, 438 p. ; 24 cm.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:9781841133164
1841133167
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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.