In this revised edition, Michael Bridge provides a comprehensive analysis of the complexities of English personal property law. It includes new material on key case law and statutory developments. An invaluable resource for those coming to the subject for the first time.

Michael Bridge is the Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics and Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore. He is a Barrister and Bencher of the Middle Temple and a Fellow of the British Academy. He previously held chairs in law at McGill University, the University of Nottingham, and University College London, where he was also the Dean of the Faculty of Laws. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Leeds, Malaya, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, and Mainz, and at Monash, Tulane and Bilgi (Istanbul) Universities. His research interests are in secured transactions and insolvency, international and domestic sale of goods, uniform law, private international law, comparative private law, and personal property law.

• 1.: Property Rights and Classes of Property


• 2.: Interests in Chattels and Bailment


• 3.: The Protection of Property Interests in Chattels


• 4.: Further Property Protection and its Limits


• 5.: The Conveyance


• 6.: Transfer of Title


• 7.: Transfer of Intangible Property


• 8.: Security Interests in Personal Property