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3. Title at common law and in equity, and the implications of the principle of relativity of title, explained by reference tocases on finding of lost chattels.4. Selected original means of acquiring title to choses in possession and choses in action:(i) mixtures of chattels and money.(ii) creation of property rights by overreaching and unauthorised substitution.5. Derivative transfers of title:(i) the distinction between contract and conveyance in common law and civilian legal theory.(ii) transfers of title to choses in possession.(iii) transfers of incorporeal money through payment systems, and their proprietary consequences.(iv) Nemo dat and selected exceptions, particularly the currency of money.6. Defective transfers; the proprietary consequences of void and voidable transfers:(i) at law.(ii) in equity, including the relevance of resulting trusts to defective transfers.(iii) relationship with remedies founded on unjust enrichment.7. The resolution of priority disputes:(i) competing legal and equitable claims to personal property.(ii) competing equitable claims to personal property.8. Shares and corporate securities:(i) nature.(ii) acquisition.(iii) transfer, including transfer through electronic settlement systems, such as CREST.(iv) security interests.(v) destruction.9. The protection of title to choses in possession and choses in action:(i) the property torts, with special reference to conversion; enforcement of title to money at law and in equity.(ii) recovery in specie (self-help; recaption; court action).10. Bankruptcy, execution and distress:(i) vesting of property in the trustee in bankruptcy.(ii) recovery of property transferred at an undervalue; preferences.READINGIntroductory:Bridge, Personal Property Law (3rd ed 2002)Proctor, Mann on the Legal Aspect of Money (6th ed 2005), Ch. 1Ferguson, The Ascent of Money (2008)General:70