Introduction -- Nature and characteristics of choses in action -- Classification and creation of choses in action -- Contracts and third parties -- Transfer of choses in action : historical overview -- Conceptual underpinnings -- Assignment of choses in action -- Transfer of choses in action on trust -- Promises to assign or to create a trust -- Assignments under Section 136 of the Law of Property Act 1925 -- Security over choses in action -- Unassignable choses -- Consequences and effects of an assignment : the rule that the debtor shall not be prejudiced -- Insolvency and assignment -- Priorities -- Involuntary assignments -- Insurance contracts -- Leases over land -- Shares -- Intellectual property -- Documentary intangibles and money -- Assignments and the onflict of laws.
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