It will astonish many a foreign lawyer that it is possible to leave most English universities with a first class degree in law, and yet at the same time be happily unencumbered by any acquaintance whatever with the concepts and controversies of personal property law. “Possible”, indeed, is an understatement; in most instances it is actually compulsory, since few institutions even bother to teach it at all. The whole vital subject, which any commercial lawyer has to comprehend and