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  • 2 - A Conceptual Account of Equitable and Statutory Assignments

  • from Part I - Introduction
  • C. H. Tham, Singapore Management University
  • Book:
    Understanding the Law of Assignment
    Published online:
    10 October 2019
    Print publication:
    17 October 2019, pp 16-30

  • Summary

    This chapter summarises the principal argument of the book, that equitable assignment is a sui generis institution developed by the courts of Equity, and which has two principal effects. One, a ‘trust’ effect, and the other, an unusual ‘agency’ effect. This chapter also briefly explains Wesley Hohfeld'seight fundamental jural relations which will be applied in the analysis of the law in the following chapters.

  • 1 - Introduction

  • from Part I - Introduction
  • C. H. Tham, Singapore Management University
  • Book:
    Understanding the Law of Assignment
    Published online:
    10 October 2019
    Print publication:
    17 October 2019, pp 3-15

  • Summary

    This chapter sets out the scope and principal claims of the book. It also introduces the major competing conceptions of assignment as are applied outside of Engand and Wales, briefly noting the differences in approach taken in Scotland, some major European jurisdictions, and also in the United States.