Floating Charges in Comparative Perspective

Edited by Alisdair MacPherson, Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law, University of Aberdeen, UK and Caroline Sophie Rapatz, Professor of Civil Law, European and International Private and Procedural Law and Comparative Law, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany

• ContentsIntroduction to Floating Charges in Comparative Perspective 1Alisdair MacPherson and Caroline Sophie Rapatz1 A comparative overview of floating charges and functionalequivalents 12Alisdair MacPherson and Caroline Sophie Rapatz2 Floating charges in England 86Andreas Televantos3 The evolution of floating charges in Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria 109Chike Emedosi4 The decisive influence of publicity on the historicaldevelopment of continental European floating security rights 151Vincent van Hoof5 The general hypothecation of movable property in SouthAfrican law 180Reghard Brits6 The floating lien in American law: from historical accounts todigital assets 200Christopher K. Odinet7 The floating charge in Chinese law: following the Englishmodel? 233Zhicheng Wu and Hao Zhang8 The English floating charge and the conceptualisation of aFrench global security 253Muriel Renaudin9 Floating security in Québec? Hypothecs on a universality ofmovable property 284Catherine Walsh10 Drifting in the currents: floating charges under Romanian law 316Radu Rizoiu11 The short history of the Hungarian floating security 340Tibor Tajti12 Floating charges in the Nordic countries 371Bjørn Løtveit, Astrid Millung-Christoffersen, PatrikLindskoug and Teemu Juutilainen13 The encumbrance of intermediated securities in Switzerland 403Alexandra Dal Molin-Kränzli

‘This book offers an excellent overview of how a security right can be established on continuously changing assets. It provides insights into the problems this presents from a more restricted approach to property rights. The topic is analysed across legal traditions, and the history of floating security rights is examined, with a broad global overview that includes Africa, China, Europe and North America – an impressive work of global comparative property law analysis.’