Contents

pp v-vi

Foreword

pp vii-ix

Editor’s Preface and Acknowledgements

pp x-xiv

List of Contributors

pp xv-xvi

Part 1 - The History of Floating Charges

pp 1-2

1 - The ‘Pre-History’ of Floating Charges in Scots Law

pp 3-61

2 - Borrowing on the Undertaking: Scottish Statutory Companies

pp 62-101

3 - The Genesis of the Scottish Floating Charge

pp 102-156

4 - The Story of the Scots Law Floating Charge: 1961 to Date

pp 157-194

Part 2 - Theoretical, Comparative and Policy Perspectives

pp 195-196

5 - Law and Economics of the Floating Charge

pp 197-227

6 - Floating Charges and Moral Hazard: Finding Fairness for Involuntary and Vulnerable Stakeholders

pp 228-270

7 - Hohfeld and the Scots Law Floating Charge

pp 271-303

8 - The Species and Structure(s) of the Floating Charge: The English Law Perspective on the Scottish Floating Charge

pp 304-342

Part 3 - Practice, Doctrine and the Future

pp 343-344

9 - The Ranking of Floating Charges

pp 345-399

10 - The Floating Charge and Insolvency Law

pp 400-441

11 - The Empirical Importance of the Floating Charge in Scotland

pp 442-472

12 - Reform of the Scottish Floating Charge

pp 473-509

Index

pp 510-518