Subjects:

Practice & Procedure

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Set-off Between Solvent Parties: Common Law

3. Set-off Between Solvent Parties: Equitable Set-off

4. Substantive Equitable Set-off

5. Set-off Between Solvent Parties: Various Aspects

6. Set-off in Bankruptcy and Company Liquidation

7. Debts, Credits and Dealings

8. Claims Susceptible to Insolvency Set-off

9. Commensurable Demands

10. Trust Funds

11. Mutuality - Introduction

12. Mutuality - Same Parties

13. Mutuality - Same Right

14. The Rule in Cherry v Boultbee

15. Combination of Bank Accounts

16. Set-off Agreements

17. Assignees, and Other Interested Third Parties

18. Sureties

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