The Law of Personal Property 3rd ed

Issues and disputes concerning personal property are a common feature of commercial legal practice. The new edition of this authoritative guide to this substantial area of common law provides a comprehensive and in-depth treatment of both tangible and intangible personal property.

table of content

1. Introduction

2. Ownership and co-ownership of personal property

3. Goods

4. Debts and things in action

5. Documentary intangibles

6. Equity and debt securities

7. Money

8. Digital assets

9. Statutory IP rights

10. Common law intellectual property rights

11. Possessory interests

12. Bailment

13. Storage and carriage

14. Leases and hire

15. Trust interests

16. Security interests

17. Modes of acquisition and divestment not based on consent: finding, mixing, manufacturing and succession

18. Gift and donatio mortis causa

19. Property aspects of sale of goods: general

20. Property aspects of sale of goods: interests in bulk goods

21. Property aspects of sale of goods: retention of title clauses

22. Requirements for assignments

23. Rights transferred by assignment

24. Bars on assignment

25. Novation

26. Negotiation of documentary intangibles

27. Transfer of equity and debt security

28. Transfer of money

29. Dealings in intellectual property

30. Transfer of posessory interests

31. Title conflicts and priorities

32. Following, tracing, and claiming

33. Protecting and enforcing interests at common law: the property torts

34. Specific relief: delivery up of goods and other remedies

35. Enforcing rights in respect of secondary interests

36. Protection of equitable ownership interests

37. Personal property in insolvency proceedings

38. Conflict of laws and tangible movable property

39. Conflict of laws and intangible property