Palmer on Bailment

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Description
This is the first edition of Bailment to be published in eighteen years. While the book has linegered in the twentieth-century its subject has moved with the times. Both in doctrinal development and in commercial application the modern bailment has shown spirited animation. The rapid pave of development is reflected in the new edition. The text has been radically revised and numerous new chapters have been added, to fasten the subject more securely to its moorings and illuminate its murkier corners. Among the fields given new coverage are crime and the proceeds of crime, limitation periods, conflict of laws, equity, restitution, damages and practice and procedure. Sections of the second edition have been enlarged to form new chapters in their own right: for example, human remains, intangible property, and the vexed question of the identification of the bailor, all of which areas have attracted penetrating new authority. Other new chapters deal with transmissible leases, insurance, taxation, insolvency, shipping contracts, air carriage, animal bailments, and mixtures and fixtures. There is an enlarged account of the law on title retention and of the points of distinction between bailment and gift.
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Contents
Chapter 1    :    The Nature and Elements of Bailment
Chapter 2    :    Identifying the Bailor
Chapter 3    :    Classifications and Distinctions
Chapter 4    :    Bailment and Possessory Title
Chapter 5    :    Possession and Permission
Chapter 6    :    Possession and Knowledge
Chapter 7    :    Service, Agency and Possession
Chapter 8    :    Bailment, Mixtures and Fixtures
Chapter 9    :    Gratuitous Bailments and Bailments for Reward
Chapter 10  :    Depositum, or Gratuitous Safekeeping
Chapter 11  :    Mandatum, or Gratuitous work and Labour
Chapter 12  :    Commodatum, or Gratuitous Loan
Chapter 13  :    Involuntary Bailment
Chapter 14  :    Hire of Custody
Chapter 15  :    Hire of Work and Labour
Chapter 16  :    Carriage: General Principles
Chapter 17  :    Road Carriage
Chapter 18  :    Rail Carriage
Chapter 19  :    Carriage by Air
Chapter 20  :    Bailment and Shipping Contracts
Chapter 21  :    Hire of Chattels
Chapter 22  :    Pledge
Chapter 23  :    Extended and Constructive Bailments: Sub-Bailment, Substitutional Bailment, Quasi-Bailment
Chapter 24  :    Transmissable Leases of Chattels 
Chapter 25  :    Bailment by Attornment
Chapter 26  :    Finders and Other Unrequested Keepers
Chapter 27  :    The Common Callings
Chapter 28  :    Boarding House Keepers
Chapter 29  :    Bailment and the Human Body: Human Remains, Human Tissue and Human Products
Chapter 30  :    Intangible Property
Chapter 31  :    Bailment of Animals
Chapter 32  :    Bailment and Equity
Chapter 33  :    Bailment and Restitution
Chapter 34  :    Bailment and Taxation
Chapter 35  :    Bailment, Crime and The Proceeds of Crime
Chapter 36  :    Bailments and Third Parties
Chapter 37  :    Bailment and Damages
Chapter 38  :    Exclusion Clauses and Unfair Terms
Chapter 39  :    Bailment and Insurance 
Chapter 40  :    The Application of Statutes of Limitation to Actions in Bailment
Chapter 41  :    Insolvency and Possessory Security
Chapter 42  :    Bailment in the Conflict of Laws
Chapter 43  :    Practice and Procedure in Bailment Claims
Appendix 1    -    RES IPSA Loquitor and the Burden of Proof in Bailment
Appendix 2    -    The Common Terms as to Safety and Fitness for Use Under Contracts for the Hire of Goods
Appendix 3    -    Extract from: The Treasure Act 1996: Code of Practice (Revised)
Appendix 4    -    Bailment and Covenants with Chattels
Appendix 5    -    New Cases
Table of Cases
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Author Details
Noorman Palmer CBE
MS, BCL (Oxon.), Hon Dr Juris (Geneva), FSA,
of Gray's Inn, Barrister
Chair of the Treausre Valuation Committee
Visiting Professor of Law at King's College London
Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Tasmania
Emeritus Professor of the Law of Art and Cultural Property at UCL
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