Download or read book Modern Law of Personal Property in England and Ireland written by Andrew P. Bell and published by Lexis Law Publishing (Va). This book was released on 1989 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is simply stated: it is to examine, in the context of English and Irish law, what interests may exist in personal property (ie property other than land) and how those interests operate. This is a complex task, however: it involves bringing together and exploring the common foundations of matters that are generally, but misleadingly, presented as belonging to entirely separate legal categories. Thus, on the one hand, much of what is discussed falls within the field of commercial law: eg sale of goods, hire-purchase, work and materials contracts, bills of exchange, pledges, liens, company charges and corporate insolvency. On the other hand, much would be classified under that amorphous head equity: eg equitable interests, secret trusts, priorities and tracing. The book also finds a coherent home for matters that have no happy place in other types of work: gift (largely ignored elsewhere), assignment of choses in action (sometimes covered in books on equity, sometimes in works on the law of contract) and possession (relegated too often to works on jurisprudence).