Keywords:
Summary of the Act The nature of hire-purchase Chattel mortgages and the Bills of Sale Acts Moneylending Modern instalment credit finance The essentials of an agreement Formal requirements Right of cancellation Restrictions on exemption clauses and other express terms Terms in favour of the hirer Terms in favour of the owner Agency Part exchange Variation and novation Termination of agreement or hiring Owner's remedies for breach Forfeiture, penalties and damages on termination Recovery of protected goods and associated money claims Remedies of the hirer for the breach Co-hirers Guarantees and indemnities Voluntary assignment Pledges, mortgages, charges and declarations of trust Transmission on death or bankruptcy Effect of wrongful dealings on owner's title Relations between the hirer and the dealer Relations between the finance house and the dealer Bills of exchange Lien Distress Fixtures Accession, confusion and specification Liability for defective goods Tortious liability of third parties to owner or hirer Advertising Insurance The computation of income in hire-purchase accounting Taxation Criminal offences and their civil consequences Conditional sale Credit sale Hiring agreements Other forms of credit Court practice and procedure Terms control Conflict of laws The true cost of borrowing Forms and precedents