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Set-off in the French Reform of the Law of Obligations: a Tale of Missed Opportunities?
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- The French Contract Law Reform: a Source of Inspiration?
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In this short paper, I would like to explain why the rules on set-off in the reformed French Civil Code (published 11 February 2016), are in many respects a missed opportunity to modernise the French law on that topic, even if some interesting innovations have taken place.
The role and definition of set-off
Whereas the old Code civil did classify set-off as a mode of extinction of obligations by its position in Chapter V (of Title III) entitled “De l'extinction des obligations”, the new provisions start with an article containing a definition of set-off as the simultaneous extinction of reciprocal obligations between two parties (new Article 1347 CC).
First of all, it is unfortunate to add another definition instead of directly formulating the rule as the old Article 1289 CC did. Codes should contain as few definitions as possible; the task of codes is not to define things that are by their nature only instances of rules and not a description of facts; their task is to contain good, operative rules. Definitions only make sense in order to avoid having to repeat certain things over and over again in rules.
Secondly, the definition is, as nearly all definitions in French codes, incomplete. It does not include the different elements and it does not spell-out the different roles of setoff. Modern doctrine stresses that set-off is not merely a mode of payment, i.e. extinction of obligations, but also a mode of getting paid, i.e. of enforcement of a right to payment and in anticipation thereof a security for the creditor. The security function of set-off is completely missing. If we turn e.g. to the EU Insolvency Regulation, that role is precisely stressed, esp. in consideration (70): “If a set-off of claims is not permitted under the law of the State of the opening of proceedings, a creditor should nevertheless be entitled to the setoff if it is possible under the law applicable to the claim of the insolvent debtor. In this way, set-off would acquire a kind of guarantee function based on legal provisions on which the creditor concerned can rely at the time when the claim arises”.
Native-State Structural Analysis of Respiratory Syncytial Virus
- Zunlong Ke, Rebecca S. Dillard, Cheri M. Hampton, Rachel E. Storms, Joshua D. Strauss, E. R. Wright
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- Microscopy and Microanalysis / Volume 22 / Issue S3 / July 2016
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- 25 July 2016, pp. 1116-1117
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- July 2016
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Analysis of Phage-Pilus Interactions inCaulobacter crescentus
- Rebecca S. Dillard, Rachel E. Storms, Leon De Masi, Cheri Hampton, Gael Panis, Patrick H. Viollier, Elizabeth R. Wright
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- Microscopy and Microanalysis / Volume 22 / Issue S3 / July 2016
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- 25 July 2016, pp. 202-203
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- July 2016
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The Intersection of Care Seeking and Clinical Capacity for Patients With Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus in Indonesia: Knowledge and Treatment Practices of the Public and Physicians
- Jennifer M. Kreslake, Yunita Wahyuningrum, Angela D. Iuliano, Aaron D. Storms, Kathryn E. Lafond, Amalya Mangiri, Catharina Y. Praptiningsih, Basil Safi, Timothy M. Uyeki, J. Douglas Storey
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- Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness / Volume 10 / Issue 6 / December 2016
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- 14 June 2016, pp. 838-847
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Indonesia has the highest human mortality from highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A (H5N1) virus infection in the world.
MethodsA survey of households (N=2520) measured treatment sources and beliefs among symptomatic household members. A survey of physicians (N=554) in various types of health care facilities measured knowledge, assessment and testing behaviors, and perceived clinical capacity.
ResultsHouseholds reported confidence in health care system capacity but infrequently sought treatment for potential HPAI H5N1 signs/symptoms. More clinicians were confident in their knowledge of diagnosis and treatment than in the adequacy of related equipment and resources at their facilities. Physicians expressed awareness of the HPAI H5N1 suspect case definition, yet expressed only moderate knowledge in questioning symptomatic patients about exposures. Self-reported likelihood of testing for HPAI H5N1 virus was high after learning of certain exposures. Knowledge of antiviral treatment was moderate, but it was higher among clinicians in puskesmas. Physicians in private outpatient clinics, the most heavily used facilities, reported the lowest confidence in their diagnostic and treatment capabilities.
ConclusionsEducational campaigns can encourage recall of possible poultry exposure when patients are experiencing signs/symptoms and can raise awareness of the effectiveness of antivirals to drive people to seek health care. Clinicians may benefit from training regarding exposure assessment and referral procedures, particularly in private clinics. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2016;10:838–847)
The East Jakarta Project: surveillance for highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) and seasonal influenza viruses in patients seeking care for respiratory disease, Jakarta, Indonesia, October 2011–September 2012
- A. D. STORMS, R. KUSRIASTUTI, S. MISRIYAH, C. Y. PRAPTININGSIH, M. AMALYA, K. E. LAFOND, G. SAMAAN, R. TRIADA, A. D. IULIANO, M. ESTER, R. SIDJABAT, K. CHITTENDEN, R. VOGEL, M. A. WIDDOWSON, F. MAHONEY, T. M. UYEKI
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- Epidemiology & Infection / Volume 143 / Issue 16 / December 2015
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- 27 April 2015, pp. 3394-3404
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Indonesia has reported the most human infections with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) virus worldwide. We implemented enhanced surveillance in four outpatient clinics and six hospitals for HPAI H5N1 and seasonal influenza viruses in East Jakarta district to assess the public health impact of influenza in Indonesia. Epidemiological and clinical data were collected from outpatients with influenza-like illness (ILI) and hospitalized patients with severe acute respiratory infection (SARI); respiratory specimens were obtained for influenza testing by real-time reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction. During October 2011–September 2012, 1131/3278 specimens from ILI cases (34·5%) and 276/1787 specimens from SARI cases (15·4%) tested positive for seasonal influenza viruses. The prevalence of influenza virus infections was highest during December–May and the proportion testing positive was 76% for ILI and 36% for SARI during their respective weeks of peak activity. No HPAI H5N1 virus infections were identified, including hundreds of ILI and SARI patients with recent poultry exposures, whereas seasonal influenza was an important contributor to acute respiratory disease in East Jakarta. Overall, 668 (47%) of influenza viruses were influenza B, 384 (27%) were A(H1N1)pdm09, and 359 (25%) were H3. While additional data over multiple years are needed, our findings suggest that seasonal influenza prevention efforts, including influenza vaccination, should target the months preceding the rainy season.
Dietary strawberries increase the proliferative response of CD3/CD28-activated CD8+ T cells and the production of TNF-α in lipopolysaccharide-stimulated monocytes from obese human subjects
- Susan J. Zunino, David H. Storms, Tammy L. Freytag, Bruce E. Mackey, Ling Zhao, Julia S. Gouffon, Daniel H. Hwang
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- British Journal of Nutrition / Volume 110 / Issue 11 / 14 December 2013
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- 19 April 2013, pp. 2011-2019
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Obesity increases the risk of developing bacterial and viral infections compared with normal weight. In a 7-week double-blind, randomised, cross-over trial, twenty obese volunteers (BMI between 30 and 40 kg/m2) were fed freeze-dried strawberry powder or strawberry-flavoured placebo preparations to determine the effects of dietary strawberries on immune function. Blood was collected at six time points during the study and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were isolated at each time point and activated with CD3 plus CD28 antibodies (T-lymphocyte activation) or lipopolysaccharide (LPS, monocyte activation). Interferon-γ, TNF-α, IL-4 and IL-10 were measured in supernatants from the activated T cells. Supernatants from the activated monocytes were analysed for the production of TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6 and IL-8. PBMC were pre-stained with PKH (Paul Karl Horan) dye and activated with CD3 plus CD28 antibodies to determine the proliferative responses of CD4+ and CD8+ T-lymphocytes by flow cytometry. To detect global changes in gene expression, microarray analysis was performed on LPS- and vehicle-treated PBMC from two subjects before and after the strawberry intervention. No difference was observed for the production of T-cell cytokines between the intervention groups. The production of TNF-α was increased in the supernatants from LPS-activated PBMC in the group consuming strawberries compared with the placebo. A modest increase in the proliferation of the CD8+ T-lymphocyte population was observed at 24 h post-activation. These data suggest that dietary strawberries may increase the immunological response of T-lymphocytes and monocytes in obese people who are at greater risk for developing infections.
Prediction of fat-free mass and percentage of body fat in neonates using bioelectrical impedance analysis and anthropometric measures: validation against the PEA POD
- Barbara E. Lingwood, Anne-Martine Storm van Leeuwen, Angela E. Carberry, Erin C. Fitzgerald, Leonie K. Callaway, Paul B. Colditz, Leigh C. Ward
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- British Journal of Nutrition / Volume 107 / Issue 10 / 28 May 2012
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Accurate assessment of neonatal body composition is essential to studies investigating neonatal nutrition or developmental origins of obesity. Bioelectrical impedance analysis or bioimpedance analysis is inexpensive, non-invasive and portable, and is widely used in adults for the assessment of body composition. There are currently no prediction algorithms using bioimpedance analysis in neonates that have been directly validated against measurements of fat-free mass (FFM). The aim of the study was to evaluate the use of bioimpedance analysis for the estimation of FFM and percentage of body fat over the first 4 months of life in healthy infants born at term, and to compare these with estimations based on anthropometric measurements (weight and length) and with skinfolds. The present study was an observational study in seventy-seven infants. Body fat content of infants was assessed at birth, 6 weeks, 3 and 4·5 months of age by air displacement plethysmography, using the PEA POD body composition system. Bioimpedance analysis was performed at the same time and the data were used to develop and test prediction equations for FFM. The combination of weight+sex+length predicted FFM, with a bias of < 100 g and limits of agreement of 6–13 %. Before 3 months of age, bioimpedance analysis did not improve the prediction of FFM or body fat. At 3 and 4·5 months, the inclusion of impedance in prediction algorithms resulted in small improvements in prediction of FFM, reducing the bias to < 50 g and limits of agreement to < 9 %. Skinfold measurements performed poorly at all ages.
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2 - The historical evolution of European private law
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Introduction
Today, Europe is in the process of creating a new common law; and to a certain extent this is not a new situation, but rather a return to how things used to be, as for many centuries a ius commune, a common law, dominated Europe. It may even be that future generations, looking back at our times, will see the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as nothing but a temporary interruption in the history of this common law of Europe.
The early Middle Ages:
The Romans excelled at two things: fighting and law making. The crowning achievement of the latter, however, arrived rather late. In the sixth century the Emperor Justinian had a compilation of Roman law made, the Corpus iuris civilis (the body of civil, that is, Roman, law). By then, Germanic tribes had overrun the west of the empire and they preferred their own customary law over the sophisticated Roman law of the Corpus. Likewise, the conquered Roman population had a law which was Roman in origin, but was just as primitive as the law of the Germanic tribes. Very few Germanic customs have been written down, and those that were, above all reveal the poor quality of the law at that time. When around 800 ad Charlemagne ruled an empire which incorporated a large part of western Europe, he tried to bring more legal unity, though without success. After all, the needs of contemporary society were best served by local and customary law.
Nova Upgrade Program: Ignition and beyond
- E. Storm, E.M. Campbell, W.J. Hogan, J.D. Lindl
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- Laser and Particle Beams / Volume 11 / Issue 2 / June 1993
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- 09 March 2009, pp. 291-298
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The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Program is addressing the critical physics and technology issues directed toward demonstrating and exploiting ignition and propagating burn to high gain with ICF targets for both defense and civilian applications. Nova is the primary U.S. facility employed in the study of the X-ray-driven (indirect drive) approach to ICF. Nova's principal objective is to demonstrate that laser-driven hohlraums can achieve the conditions of driver-target coupling efficiency, driver irradiation symmetry, driver pulseshaping, target preheat, and hydrodynamic stability required by hot-spot ignition and fuel compression to realize a fusion gain.
The LLNL ICF Program believes that the next major step in the national ICF Program is the demonstration of ignition and moderate gain (G ≤ 10). Recent theoretical and experimental results show that the ignition drive energy threshold can be reduced significantly by operating indirectly driven targets at radiation temperatures ∼ 1.3–1.6 times higher (thereby achieving higher implosion velocity) than originally proposed for the Laboratory Microfusion Facility (LMF). (Temperatures of ∼ 1.3 times higher have already been demonstrated on Nova.) Specifically, it should be possible to demonstrate ignition and propagating with burn about 1–2 MJ of laser energy as against the 5–10 MJ necessary for the high-yield LMF. LLNL proposes to upgrade the existing Nova facility to 1–2 MJ (2- to 4-ns pulses) and demonstrate ignition and propagating burn to moderate gain with appropriately scaled hydrodynamic equivalents of high-yield targets.
Once moderate gain has been demonstrated at 1–2.0 MJ on the Nova Upgrade, investigations into improving, by about 50%, the coupling efficiency between the driver and the capsule could provide gains >20 at about 1 MJ or less. A database for gain below 1-MJ driver energies could lead to a low-capital-cost Engineering Test Facility (ETF) for a first inertial fusion energy engineering reactor. Because the capital cost for both the target chamber and the driver scale with size, there is the opportunity to realize large savings by lowering the required driver energy necessary to demonstrate the technology for a first demonstration power plant. A target gain, G ∼ 25, at a driver energy, ED ∼ 0.75 MJ, would be self-sustaining for a driver efficiency of ∼10% and a thermal-to-electric conversion efficiency of ∼33% and at 12 Hz would generate ∼10 MW of gross electric power. Although the cost of electricity would be high, the combination of low capital cost and early demonstration of reactor technology would be an attractive step in the development of inertial fusion energy.
The Nova Upgrade Facility
- W.H. Lowdermilk, E.M. Campbell, J.H. Campbell, J.T. Hunt, J.R. Murray, H.T. Powell, R.L. Smith, E. Storm, M.T. Tobin, J.B. Trenholme
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- Laser and Particle Beams / Volume 11 / Issue 2 / June 1993
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The Nova Upgrade Facility is being designed to achieve inertial confinement fusion (ICF) ignition and gain. A baseline design of the laser and experimental facilities has been completed, and a development plan, which includes a fully integrated laser demonstration, has been formulated. With adequate funding, the activities in this plan could be completed by late 1993. Construction of the Nova Upgrade beginning at that time would make possible the achievement of ICF ignition before the end of the decade.
Randomized study comparing the impact of a simulator with CT option to diagnostic CT on workload and patients comfort
- P. Bijdekerke, V. Vinh-Hung, F. Nys, E. Vandepoele, J. Van de Steene, S. D'Haese, D. Verellen, G. Storme
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- Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice / Volume 2 / Issue 1 / March 2000
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Purpose: A randomized study to investigate the routine use of a simulator-based CT (Sim-CT) for planning purposes.
Materials and methods: 24 patients accepted for pelvic radiotherapy were randomized to receive either a Sim-CT or a DCT planning CT scan. The execution time was measured for different steps in both procedures. A questionnaire was developed to gain information about the psychological status and physical comfort.
Results: The set-up (of hardware, software and patient) took significantly longer for the Sim-CT procedure (p<0.05). An average of 5.7 min was found in comparison with 3.2 min for the DCT group. A similar result (p<0.0005) was observed for the scan time (resp. 15.9 versus 5.1 min). However the total time of the procedure (including patient preparation) was significantly lower (p<0.005) for the Sim-CT group (resp. 21.6 versus 31.7 min). Physical comfort score showed that some patients experienced more discomfort during the Sim-CT procedure than during DCT.
Conclusions: The scan acquisition time and set-up time of Sim-CT procedure was significantly higher than DCT however the total time was less for Sim-CT group. The overall reduction in time with Sim-CT is counterbalanced by increased patient discomfort.
An investigation of shock strengthening in a conical convergent channel
- Robert E. Setchell, Erik Storm, Bradford Sturtevant
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- Journal of Fluid Mechanics / Volume 56 / Issue 3 / 12 December 1972
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- 29 March 2006, pp. 505-522
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The behaviour of an initially plane, strong shock wave propagating into a conical convergence is investigated experimentally and theoretically. In the experiment a 10° half-angle cone is mounted on the end of a pressure-driven shock tube. Shock waves with initial Mach numbers varying from 6.0 to 10·2 are generated in argon a t a pressure of 1·5 Torr. During each run local shock velocities a t several positions along the cone axis are measured using a thin multi-crystal piezoelectric probe inserted from the vertex. This technique produces accurate velocity data for both the incident and reflected shock waves. In the corresponding analysis, a simplified characteristics method is used to obtain an approximate solution of the axisymmetric diffraction equations derived by Whitham (1959).
Both the shock velocity measurements and the axisymmetric diffraction solution confirm that the incident shock behaviour is dominated by cyclic diffraction processes which originate at the entrance of the cone. Each diffraction cycle is characterized by Mach reflexion on the cone wall followed by Mach reflexion on the axis, These cycles evidently persist until the shock reaches the cone vertex, where the measured velocity has increased by as much as a factor of three. Real-gas effects, enhanced in the experiment by increasing the initial Mach number and decreasing the pressure, apparently alter the shock wave behaviour only in the region near the vertex. Velocity measurements for the reflected shock within the cone show that the shock velocity is nearly constant throughout most of the convergence length.
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Case 3 - Machinery supplied to be used by the buyer
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(Simple retention of title)
A sells a machine to B. The contract contains the following clause: ‘Title to the machine is reserved until the seller has received full payment.’ Before the price has been paid, C, who is an unsecured creditor of B, executes against the machine. In the alternative, B goes bankrupt. In either case, the machine is on B's premises.
Questions
(a) What is A's legal position?
(b) Is the clause stated above sufficient to be effective? Is there a more suitable or common wording?
(c) Do the parties have to agree on the insertion of a retention of title clause? Or could the seller stipulate one unilaterally?
(d) Is the point in time at which the parties agree that title should be reserved relevant?
(e) Do A's rights in respect of the machine depend on anything other than the inclusion of a reservation of title clause in the agreement: for example, compliance with certain formalities (e.g. agreement in writing, agreement having a ‘certain date’) or registration? Are such clauses efficacious if they are simply contained in the seller's general conditions of sale?
Case 11 - Bank loan for a wholesaler
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(Security right in revolving stock-in-trade – security ownership – enterprise charge – actio Pauliana)
A, a financial institution, intends to make a loan to B, who is starting a business as a wholesaler of motorcar accessories. To avoid personal liability, B sets up a private limited company (C). A wishes to take a security right over the stock that will be present on C's premises. The nature of the business is such that the stock will continuously be sold and replaced. A does not, therefore, wish its security right to be confined to present stock; rather it wishes it to include the stock that will be purchased by C in the future.
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(a) Is such an arrangement possible? Describe its main features and prerequisites, including any requirements that may exist as to form, registration, separate storage, etc.
(b) What rights would such an arrangement confer on the secured party (A) in the event of C's insolvency? Or if another (unsecured) creditor tried to execute against the stock?
(c) How common are arrangements of this kind in business practice?
(d) Are there any limits in respect of the value the collateral may have in relation to the amount of the secured loan?
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Case 14 - Finance leasing of computers
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(Finance leasing – lessor's and lessee's rights in insolvency of the other partner – effects of purchase option)
S is a supplier of computers. B wants a computer. At the request of B, A (a financial institution) buys the computer from S. A then leases the computer to B. The length of the lease corresponds to the expected useful life of the computer. An unsecured creditor of B executes against the computer. Alternatively, B becomes bankrupt. A asserts ownership of, or a security right in, the computer, or at least to preferential payment out of the proceeds of the sale of the computer.
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(a) Does A have any real rights in the computer? Do such rights depend on any further prerequisites?
(b) Is it relevant whether B has an option to buy the computer at the end of the contractual term?
(c) Is this or some other kind of leasing agreement used instead of other types of security, such as retention of title or security transfer of ownership? Is legislative policy or the approach of the courts more favourable to leasing (in respect of the interests of the supplier/the bank) than to security rights?
(d) What would B's legal position be in respect of the computer if not he but A became bankrupt?
Table of cases cited by name
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Case 4 - Jackets for resale
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(Simple retention of title – entitlement to resell)
A produces men's clothing and sells it to retailers. B, who runs a chain of fashion shops, buys 1,000 winter jackets for the coming season. The contract grants to B a period of sixty days before payment has to be made. It also contains a clause whereby A reserves title to the jackets until payment in full, but also permits B to resell the jackets in the ordinary course of business.
Before B has paid for the jackets in full, he goes bankrupt. As the winter season has not yet started, no jacket has yet been sold.
Question
What are A's rights in respect of the jackets?
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The solution to case 4 is the same as the solution to case 3. A can vindicate the jackets as his property (§ 47 InsO). They do not form part of the insolvency estate. The entitlement to resell the jackets does not in any way affect the validity of the retention of title clause. On the contrary, such a right is usually provided for because it enables B to transfer ownership to his customers without having to rely upon the rules of bona fide acquisition.