The Law of Set-Off (3rd Edition)

This work has established itself as a leading authority on its subject. The Third Edition brings the book fully up to date with the latest case-law since the Second Edition was published in 1996. It provides an authoritative commentary on the principles governing the law of set-off and is an essential purchase for banking, finance, and insolvency lawyers world-wide.

Readership: Banking, finance and insolvency lawyers worldwide; practitioners and academics specializing in banking and finance law, commercial law, insolvency, and company law; reference libraries, both in the UK and internationally; and postgraduate students of financial law.

Contents/contributors
1 Introduction
2 Set-off Between Solvent Parties: Common Law
3 Set-off Between Solvent Parties: Equitable Set-off
4 Substantive Equitable Set-off
5 Set-off Between Solvent Parties: Various Aspects
6 Set-off in Bankruptcy and Company Liquidation
7 Debts, Credits and Dealings
8 Claims Susceptible to Insolvency Set-off
9 Commensurable Demands
10 Trust Funds
11 Mutuality - Introduction
12 Mutuality - Same Parties
13 Mutuality - Same Right
14 The Rule in Cherry v Boultbee
15 Combination of Bank Accounts
16 Set-off Agreements
17 Assignees, and Other Interested Third Parties
18 Sureties