1. Ownership, Possession and Limited, Future, Conditional or Temporary Proprietary Rights in Chattels and Intangible Assets
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Types of Proprietary Rights in Civil Law
1.3 The Types of Proprietary Rights in Common Law: The Practical Differences from Civil Law. Modern Functional Theories
1.4 Transfer of Proprietary Rights in Chattels in Civil and Common Law
1.5 Proprietary Rights in Intangible Assets in Civil and Common Law
1.6 Trusts. Constructive and Resulting Trusts, Tracking and Tracing. Agency. The Civil Law Response
1.7 Secured Transactions and Conditional or Finance Sales. Floating Charges
1.8 Private International Law Aspects of Chattels
1.9 Private International Law Aspects of Assignments
1.10 The Modern Law of Chattels and Intangibles
1.11 The European Draft Common Frame of Reference
1.12 Uniform or Harmonised Statutory or Treaty Law. The Alternative of Transnationalisation and the Need for and Emergence of a Dynamic Movable Property Law
2. Negotiable Documents of Title and Negotiable Instruments
2.1 The Role of Documents
2.2 Negotiable Instruments
2.3 The Dematerialisation of Documents of Title and Negotiable Instruments; Electronic Transfers
3. Investment Securities
3.1 The Different Types of Shares and Bonds
3.2 The Transnationalisation of Custodial and Settlement Systems and its Opportunities