The Law of Personal Property 3rd ed

Authors: Michael Bridge, Louise Gullifer, Gerard McMeel, Kelvin F.K. Low

ISBN: 9780414098152

Published: December 2021

Format: Hardback

Language: English

Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell Ltd

Description

Personal property disputes — ownership, security interests, bailment, insolvency claims, and increasingly digital assets — are a constant feature of commercial litigation and transactional practice. This third edition of a leading UK treatise gives a comprehensive, chapter-by-chapter treatment of both tangible and intangible personal property, from goods and money to equity securities, intellectual property, and trust interests.

Key Features

The third edition adds a dedicated new chapter on digital assets, substantially expands the treatment of electronic documentation, and addresses the property-law effects of Brexit — bringing a well-established common law framework up to date with how personal property actually moves through modern commercial transactions.

Coverage

Ownership and co-ownership; goods, debts, and things in action; documentary intangibles; equity and debt securities; money and digital assets; statutory and common law IP rights; possessory interests, bailment, storage, and carriage; leases and hire; trust and security interests; modes of acquisition and divestment; sale of goods and assignment; title conflicts and priorities; tracing and claiming; property remedies; insolvency; and conflict of laws for both tangible and intangible property.

About the Authors

Michael Bridge is Emeritus Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics and a Fellow of the British Academy. Louise Gullifer is Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge and a former UK delegate to UNCITRAL on secured transactions. Gerard McMeel and Kelvin F.K. Low are established scholars and practitioners in commercial and personal property law, with Low based at the National University of Singapore.

Table of Contents

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 possessory 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

Why buy this book?

It remains the current and only edition in print of the leading single-volume treatise on English personal property law, written by four of the field's most cited academics and practitioners, and is regularly cited in judgments and academic scholarship on commercial and property law.

Keywords

personal property law, commercial law, digital assets, security interests, insolvency, bailment, conflict of laws, English law

Target Audience

Commercial litigators, insolvency practitioners, banking and finance lawyers, academics, and law libraries

Genre

Legal, Commercial Law, Academic, Reference

AI-Optimized Q&A

Who is The Law of Personal Property, 3rd edition, for? Commercial litigators, insolvency practitioners, banking and finance lawyers, and academics working on English personal property law.

Does it cover digital assets? Yes — Chapter 8 is a dedicated treatment of digital assets, new to this third edition, alongside traditional tangible and intangible property.

Is this the current edition? Yes — the third edition (December 2021) is the latest and only edition currently in print from Sweet & Maxwell.

Does it address cross-border issues? Yes — the final two chapters cover conflict of laws for both tangible and intangible property.

Does it cover the effects of Brexit on personal property law? Yes — the third edition specifically addresses the property-law implications of Brexit alongside its expanded treatment of electronic documentation.

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