Proprietary Remedies in Context

Craig Rotherham is a Reader in Law at the University of Nottingham.

Part 1 Property and proprietary remedies: exploring the idea of remedial trusts - from remedy to property - the development of the trust, different uses of the constructive trust, the remedial/institutional dichotomy; redistribution and property rites - two conceptions of property, property in English legal thought, the influence of these understandings on the law of proprietary remedies, orthodox and redistributive proprietary remedies, reason and ritual in the law of proprietary remedies; the legacy of legal realism - instrumentalist approaches to property - property in American legal thought, instrumentalism in proprietary remedies in US law, instrumentalism in other common law jurisdictions, formalism and instrumentalism contrasted; the normative foundations of proprietary claims and remedies - considerations of justice and efficiency for giving owners relief against third parties, rights to profit, should these remedies be specific?, should these remedies have priority in bankruptcy?. Redistributive proprietary remedies: the metaphysics of tracing - substituted title and property rhetoric - analysing tracing, the metaphysics of tracing - the denial of the remedial nature of tracing in legal discourse, an explanation of tracing rhetoric - the reconciliation of tracing with axiomatic notions of property rights, the normative basis for substituted title, the consequences of tracing discourse for the substantive, some realism about tracing, conclusion; the proprietary consequences of a vitiated intention to transfer property - "an intolerable reproach to our system of jurisprudence"? - the possible legal responses to a vitiated consent to pass title, vitiated intent and equitable title - doctrinal responses, proprietary relief for vitiated transfers - relevant policy considerations; qualified consent to transfer property - the mysterious basis of the quistclose trust - conceptualising the quistclose trust, considerations of justice and efficiency; obligation into ownership - constructive trusts and liens in arrangements to assign property - the distribution of entitlements in sale of goods transactions, the passage of title in equity - constructive trusts and liens arising in the context of contracts of sale, conclusion; proprietary relief for enrichment by wrongs - the shifting boundary between ownership and obligation - proprietary relief for enrichment by wrongs - a normative analysis, Lister v. Stubs and the ownership/obligation distinction, deducing ownership from obligation - AG for Hong Kong v. Reid, proprietary relief for enrichment by wrongs in North American legal thought, conclusion - the limits and price of formalism; the division of assets on the breakdown of intimate relationships - the limits of private ordering - introduction, from contract to status - justifications for judicial intervention, the inadequacy of justifications offered for intervention in this area, the limits of the private ordering paradigm (Part Contents).