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Bibliography1 update
  • After "Fuller 2012"

    Insert after "Fuller 2012":

    "Fuller 2025

    Fuller, G, Ranero, F and Siew, Y. Fuller on The Law and Practice of International Capital Markets. LexisNexis, 4th edn (2025)"

    Published 12 August 2026

Chapter 1: An Overview of the Book

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Chapter 2: Nature and Characteristics of Intangibles

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Chapter 3: Private International Law

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Chapter 4: Causes of Action and Judgment Debts

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Chapter 5: Rights Under a Contract

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Chapter 6: Debts

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Chapter 7: Transfer of Choses in Action: Historical Overview

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Chapter 8: Conceptual Underpinnings

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Chapter 9: Money, Cryptocurrencies and Negotiable Instruments6 updates
  • [5.96] fn 109

    Amend fn 109 as follows:

    "See ibid [11.05]; Fuller 2012, [5.63]-[5.67] Fuller 2025, [5.55]-[5.62]. See paras 9.96, 9.97, 9.98."

    Published 12 August 2026

  • [9.93] fn 107

    Amend fn 107 as follows:

    "Fuller 2012, [1.93]-[1.95] and [5.61]-[5.62]. Fuller 2025, [1.91]-[1.93] and [5.55]-[561]. See para 9.96."


    Published 12 August 2026

  • [9.97] fn110

    Amend fn 110 as follows:

    "This example is noted at Fuller 2012, [5.64]. The example related to 'bearer depositary receipts', no longer current in the market. Fuller 2025 omits the example."

    Published 12 August 2026

  • [9.98]

    Amend paragraph 9.98 as follows:

    "...debt claims ('bearer depository receipts' or 'BDRs' sometimes known as 'debt claim depositary receipts') and those..."

    Published 12 August 2026

  • [9.98] fn 111

    Amend fn 111 as follows:

    "See ibid [5.62] Fuller 2025, [5.55]-[5.62]." 

    Published 12 August 2026

  • [9.99]

    Delete the paragraph and replace with:

    "Depository receipts are either transferred by negotiation (if unregistered) or (if registered) by way a change of entry in the register.

    Published 12 August 2026

Chapter 10: Equitable Assignment of Choses in Action

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Chapter 11: Transfer of Choses in Action on Trust

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Chapter 12: Promises to Assign or Create a Trust

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Chapter 13: Assignments Under Section 136 of the Law of Property Act 1925

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Chapter 14: Dealing in Rights to Litigate

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Chapter 15: The Group Litigation Order Regime

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Chapter 16: The Multiple Claimants Regime

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Chapter 17: The Representative Rule Regime

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Chapter 18: Collective Proceedings in Competition Cases1 update
  • [18.09] fn 32

    Insert at the end of the footnote the following sentence: 

    "On the factors that should be taken into account by the Tribunal in deciding whether to certify on an opt-in or opt-out basis, including in particular the relevance of the merits, see Evans v Barclays Bank plc [2025] UKSC 48."

    Published 12 August 2026

Chapter 19: Assignment of Burdens

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Chapter 20: Intangibles Not Transferable by Reason of Public Policy

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Chapter 21: Personal Obligations

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Chapter 22: Prohibition on Assignment

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Chapter 23: Assertion and Loss of Ownership: An Overview

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Chapter 24: Consequences and Incidents of Transfer

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Chapter 25: Extinction of Intangible Property

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Chapter 26: Priorities and Loss of Title

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Chapter 27: An Owner's Rights 'Out of Possession'

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Chapter 28: The Nature of Securities10 updates
  • [28.05] fn 3

    Insert in fn 3:

    "Fuller 2012, [1.10]: '...it can mean ... transferable financial instruments ...'; Fuller 2025, [110]; Blair, Walker, & Wiley 2021, [1.66]-[1.67]." 

    Published 12 August 2026

  • [28.09] fn 10

    Amend the footnote as follows:

    "... Fuller 2012, [1.10] Fuller 2025, [1.10]-[1.13]."

    Published 12 August 2026

  • [28.16] fn 27

    Amend fn 27 as follows:

    "Fuller 2012 2025, [1.63]."

    Published 12 August 2026

  • [28.18] fn 29

    Amend fn 29 as follows:

    "...Fuller 2012 2025, [1.20]."

    Published 12 August 2026

  • [28.19] fn 31

    Amend fn 31 as follows:

    "Fuller 2012 2025, [1.26]."

    Published 12 August 2026

  • [28.21]

    At the end of the paragraph add:

    "Other identification numbers, contained in, in addition or in substitution for ISINs may be used. The Common Code is required for clearing through Euroclear and Clearstream; a CUSIP code is used for clearing through the US DTC; and a CINS code is a US-allocated number for certain transactions outside the US and Canada: see Fuller 2025, [1.135]-[1.139]."

    Published 12 August 2026

  • [28.22] fn 33

    Amend fn 33 as follows:

    "... see generally, Fuller 2012, [1.136]-[1.140] Fuller 2025 [1.135]-[1.139]."

    Published 12 August 2026

  • [28.35] fnn 61 ff

    In paragraph 28.35, amend:

    fn 61:"Fuller 2012 2025, [1.70] and [8.40]-[8.42]."

    fn 67: "...See also Fuller 2012 2025, ch 9."

    Published 12 August 2026

  • [28.41] fn 74

    Amend fn 74 as follows:

    "...Fuller 2012 2025, [1.117] [1.116]."

    Published 12 August 2026

  • [28.42] fn 77

    Amend fn 77 as follows:

    "... see Fuller 2012, [1.127] Fuller 2025, [1.126]." 

    Published 12 August 2026

Chapter 29: Holding and Transfer of Paper Securities5 updates
  • [29.16] fn 28

    Amend fn 28 as follows:

    "Fuller 2012 2025, [1.111]."

    Published 12 August 2026

  • [29.19] fn 32

    Amend fn 32 as follows:

    "Fuller 2012, [1.113] Fuller 2025, [1.112];..."

    Published 12 August 2026

  • [29.22]

    Amend fn 40 as follows:

    "Fuller 2012, [1.116] Fuller 2025 [1.115]."

    Published 12 August 2026

  • [29.51] fn 73 and fn 74

    Amend fn 73 as follows:

    "Fuller 2012, [1.116] Fuller 2025, [1.115]."

    Amend fn 74 as follows:

    "ibid [1.116] [1.115]."

    Published 12 August 2026

  • [29.52] fn 75

    Amend fn 75 as follows:

    "ibid [1.117] [1.116]. ..."

    Published 12 August 2026

Chapter 30: Holding and Transfer of Dematerialized Securities

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Chapter 31: Holding and Transfer of Immobilized Securities1 update
  • [31.02] fn 3

    Amend fn 3 as follows:

    "Fuller 2012, [1.119] Fuller 2025, [1.118]."

    Published 12 August 2026

Chapter 32: Macro-Property and Markets

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Chapter 33: Fungible Contracts and Class Actions2 updates
  • [33.33] fn 94

    Insert at the end of the footnote the following sentence: 

    "On appeal to the Supreme Court in Evans v Barclays Bank plc [2025] UKSC 48, the Court of Appeal was overturned and the decision of the Competition Appeal Tribunal restored. The approach of the majority of the Tribunal was affirmed at [88] - [96]."

    Published 12 August 2026

  • [33.34] fn 96

    Insert at the end of the footnote the following sentence:

    "See also the decision of the Supreme Court in the same case, Evans v Barclays Bank plc [2025] UKSC 48 at [78] - [87]."

    Published 12 August 2026

Chapter 34: The Nature of Intellectual Property

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Chapter 35: Creation and Transfer of Intellectual Property Rights

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Chapter 36: Taking Security

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