Personal Property Law.

Cover -- Series -- Personal Property Law -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- 1 Property rights and classes of property -- Property rights -- Equity and common law -- Classes of property -- Personal property and land -- Chattels real and personal -- Things in possession -- Things in action -- Movable and immovable property -- Classification: particular cases -- 2 Interests in chattels and bailment -- Introduction -- Possession -- Relativity of possession -- The history of a chattel -- Legal character of possession -- Constructive possession -- Indivisibility of possession -- Control falling short of possession -- Possession as a protected property interest -- Ownership -- General and special property -- Indivisibility and co-ownership -- Abandonment -- Equitable interests in personality -- Acquisition of possession by finding -- Treasure trove -- Bailment -- Bailment and possession -- Types of bailment -- The bailee's liability -- Sub-bailment -- Loans for consumption -- Hire purchase and related bailments -- Transferring possession -- Constructive delivery -- Delivery documents -- 3 The protection of property interests in chattels -- Introduction -- Trespass to chattels -- The mental element -- Who may sue in trespass? -- Liability in conversion -- Definition and intention -- Asportation as conversion -- Damage, destruction, and loss -- Detention -- Dispositions of chattels -- Agents and intermediaries -- Involuntary bailees -- Misdelivery -- Chattels -- Entitlement to sue in conversion -- Bailment and entitlement to sue -- Possession and the ius tertii -- The right to immediate possession -- Reversionary interests -- Remedies issues -- Documentary intangibles -- Improvements to chattels -- Contributory negligence -- Recovery of the chattel -- Self-help -- Limitation of actions.

4 Further property protection and its limits -- Introduction -- Tracing at common law -- Extinction of property rights in chattels -- Fixtures -- Attachment, commingling, and alteration -- Tracing in equity -- Common law -- Equity -- Equitable personal remedies -- 5 The conveyance -- Introduction -- Consensual transfers: sale -- Definitions in the sale of goods act -- Passing of property in specific goods -- Gratuitous consensual transfers -- 6 Transfer of title -- Introduction -- Overriding legal property interests -- Common law exceptions to the rule of nemo dat -- Special statutory exceptions to the rule of nemo dat -- Buyer in possession -- Overriding equitable property interests -- Conflicting equitable and legal interests -- 7 Transfer of intangible property -- Introduction -- Assignment of things (or choses) in action -- Negotiability -- 8 Security interests in personal property -- Introduction -- Possessory security -- Non-possessory security -- Index.

In this revised edition, Michael Bridge provides a comprehensive analysis of the complexities of English personal property law. It includes new material on key case law and statutory developments. An invaluable resource for those coming to the subject for the first time.

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