I pass on an announcement from Hart Publishing, and add my congratulations to Simon Douglas and Duncan Sheehan on these new books.
Hart is kindly offering a discount to RDG members—see below.
Lionel

Hart Publishing is very pleased to announce the publication of Liability for Wrongful Interferences with Chattels by Simon Douglas and the forthcoming publication of The Principles of Personal Property Law by Duncan Sheehan at the end of November.
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Liability for Wrongful Interferences with Chattels
by Simon Douglas

The book examines the protection of property rights in chattels through the law of torts, focusing on the four actions of conversion, detinue, trespass and negligence. Traditionally these actions have been governed by arcane divisions which have led to unnecessary complexity and arbitrariness. The principal argument made in the book is that significant developments in the modern law point towards abolition of these arcane divisions and permit the chattel torts to be understood by reference to a coherent and justifiable structure. It is argued that the only division which should be drawn in the modern chattel torts is between intentional interferences with chattels, where liability is strict, and unintentional interferences with chattels, where liability is fault based.

In order to demonstrate this structure it is first argued that the actions of conversion, detinue and trespass amount, in substance, to a single cause of action which imposes strict liability for the intentional interference with another's chattel. It is then argued that the tort of negligence recognises a fault-based cause of action for the unintentional interference with another's chattel. It is further argued that this basic structure, unlike the arcane divisions which have traditionally governed this area of law, can be justified.

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

1: INTRODUCTION

PART I: THE RIGHTS PROTECTED BY THE CHATTEL TORTS

2: PROPERTY RIGHTS RELATING TO CHATTELS

3: TYPES OF PROPERTY RIGHTS

PART II: LIABILITY FOR INTENTIONAL INTERFERENCES WITH CHATTELS

INTRODUCTION TO PART II

4: CONVERSION

5: DETINUE

6: TRESPASS

7: A SINGLE TORT

PART III: LIABILITY FOR UNINTENTIONAL INTERFERENCES WITH CHATTELS

INTRODUCTION TO PART III

8: INTRODUCTION TO THE TORT OF NEGLIGENCE

9: ESTABLISHING ‘DUTY’ AND ‘FAULT’ IN NEGLIGENCE

PART IV: APPLYING THE STRUCTURE TO REMEDIES

10: COMPENSATION

11: CONCLUSION

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http://www.hartpub.co.uk/pdf/9781849461511.pdf

Simon Douglas is a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Jesus College, Oxford.

Nov 2011 242pp Hbk 9781849461511 £55 / €71.50 / US$110 / CDN$110
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The Principles of Personal Property Law
by Duncan Sheehan

The law of personal property covers a very wide spectrum of scenarios and has had little detailed scrutiny of its overarching structure over the years. This is a shame. It is a system and can best be understood as a system. Indeed without understanding it as a system, it becomes much more difficult to understand. This new textbook is intended to provide a comprehensive and yet detailed coverage of the law of personal property in England and Wales. It includes transfer of legal title to chattels, the nemo dat rule, negotiable instruments and assignment of choses in action. It also looks at defective transfers of property and the resulting proprietary claims, including those contingent on tracing, the tort of conversion, bailment and security interests. By bringing together areas often scattered throughout company law, commercial law, trusts and tort textbooks, it enables readers to see common themes and issues and to make otherwise impossible generalisations across different contexts about the nature of the concepts English law applies. Throughout the book, concepts are explained rigorously, with reference to how they are used in commercial practice and everyday life.

The book will be of use to students on undergraduate commercial law courses, or related LLM courses, as well as those on integrated property law courses, and particularly specialised personal property modules. It will also be useful to academics and practitioners working in the area.

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

1 The Basic Concepts of Personal Property Law

2 Transfer of Legal Title to Choses in Possession I

3 Transfer of Legal Title to Choses in Possession II: The Nemo Dat Rule

4 Assignment of Legal Choses in Action

5 Transfer or Disposition of Subsisting Equitable Interests

6 Negotiation and Negotiable Instruments

7 Defective Transfers and Payments

8 Protection of Legal Title via Tort Law

9 Protection of Equitable Title: Remedies for Misdirected Property

10 Bailment and Attornment

11 Security Interests and Quasi-Security

12 Pledges and Liens

13 Non-possessory Security Interests I: Mortgages and Bills of Sale

14 Non-possessory Security Interests II: Charges

15 Concluding Observations

Please click on the link below for the full table of contents
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/Sheehan_Contents.pdf

Duncan Sheehan is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of East Anglia.

Nov 2011 484pp Pbk 9781841133164 £35 / €45.50 / US$70 / CDN$70
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