Subjects:

Contract Law

Contents:

1. General introduction

PART I: CHOSES IN ACTION

2. Choses in action

PART II: THE TRANSFER OF CHOSES IN ACTION

3. The English law approach to the transfer of choses in action: overview and history

4. An overview of the complexities involved in transferring a chose in action

5. Assignment of a chose in action

6. Transfer of a chose of action on trust

7. Agreements to transfer

8. Assignments under s136 of the Law of Property Act 1925

9. Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999

10. Unassignable choses

11. The effect of a valid assignment

12. Priorities between assignments

13. Consequences of a failed assignment

PART III: ASSIGNMENTS IN PARTICULAR CONTEXTS

14. Assignments by way of security

15. Assignments and insolvency

PART IV: ASSIGNMENTS OF PARTICULAR TYPES OF CHOSE

16. Shares

17. Insurance contracts

18. Intellectual property

19. Documentary intangibles

20. Succession

PART V: PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW

21. Conflicts of law and the law of assignment

The Law of Assignment is a comprehensive analysis of the assignment of choses in action. The book begins with an analysis of the wide range of choses recognised by English law, and a consideration of their distinct features. It goes on, after a brief historical overview, to consider the various ways in which English law gives effect to assignments.

The effects of valid and invalid assignments are set out, and choses that cannot be assigned described, as well as the difficult question of priorities. Thereafter, assignment is considered in particular contexts (security and insolvency) and the specific rules applicable to the assignment of particular choses gone through (shares; insurance contracts; intellectual property; documentary intangibles). Finally, assignment is dealt with in the context of private international law.

Although, the book seeks to give an insight into the principles that underpin assignment, a major strength of the book is that it deals specifically with the peculiarities of the various different choses in action recognised by English law.