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Part I Introduction, 1 Introduction

From: The Law of Security and Title-Based Financing (3rd Edition)

Hugh Beale, Michael Bridge, Louise Gullifer, Eva Lomnicka

Content type:
Book content
Product:
Financial Law [FBL]
Published in print:
08 March 2018
ISBN:
9780198795568

From: Oxford Legal Research Library (http://olrl.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 10 December 2023

Subject(s):
Assignment of credit — Mortgage — Pledge — Debt — Collateral agreement — Set-off

This introductory chapter talks about propriety security taken by creditors from debtors to support the repayment of loans or, much less frequently, the performance of other obligations. The security normally takes the form of a pledge, mortgage, or charge over the debtor’s property. The chapter also considers transactions that on a traditional analysis do not involve the taking of security but that have a similar economic function, in that a party that provides credit retains property rights over assets that in practice are being purchased by the debtor with the credit provided. These transactions involve what is often called ‘vendor credit’ as opposed to ‘lender credit’. The equivalent of security may also be produced by a host of other contractual devices, such as priority agreements, contractual set-off, and liens over sub-freights.

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