Book contents
- Understanding the Law of Assignment
- Understanding the Law of Assignment
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Cases
- Legislation
- Abbreviations
- Part I Introduction
- Part II The Model
- 3 Invariability
- 4 Different Models of Equitable Assignment
- 5 Misconceptions
- 6 Combination
- Part III Joinder
- Part IV Notice
- Part V Statutes
- Part VI Consequences
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Invariability
from Part II - The Model
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 October 2019
Book contents
- Understanding the Law of Assignment
- Understanding the Law of Assignment
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Cases
- Legislation
- Abbreviations
- Part I Introduction
- Part II The Model
- 3 Invariability
- 4 Different Models of Equitable Assignment
- 5 Misconceptions
- 6 Combination
- Part III Joinder
- Part IV Notice
- Part V Statutes
- Part VI Consequences
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter explains how voluntarily assumed obligations arising at common law, and also in equity, may not be unilaterally changed by the obligor thereto without the prior assent of the obligee. Wesley Hohfeld's jural relations of claim-right/duty; power/liability; privilege/no-right; and immunity/disability are employed to demonstrate that the identity of an obligee to an obligation (‘to whom’ the obligation is owed), is just as much a part of the specificatin of the obligation as, say, the specification as to ‘what’ is to be performed.
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- Understanding the Law of Assignment , pp. 33 - 66Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019