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Cape Town convention : its application to space assets and relation to the law of outer space /
This book explains the application of the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment to space assets, The Cape Town Convention, in a manner that is useful to lawyers engaged in satellite finance and to academics who desire to understand this treaty.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden :
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,
2013.
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| Series: | Studies in space law ;
8. |
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- The Cape Town Convention; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 1.1. An Overview of the Financing of Space Ventures; 1.2. The Challenges of Financing Space Assets; 1.3. An Example of an Efficient Law of Secured Finance: Article 9 of the U.C.C; 1.4. The Cape Town Convention: A New Era of Asset-Backed Finance; 1.5. The Genesis and Drafting of the Convention and Space Assets Protocol; 1.6. Industry Reception of the Space Assets Protocol; 2. The Operation of the Convention and the Space Assets Protocol.
- 2.1. The Nature of an International Interest2.1.1. Security Interests; 2.1.2. Conditional Sales; 2.1.3. Leases; 2.1.4. Resolving Questions about the Nature of a Transaction; 2.1.5. The Requirement of a "Uniquely Identifiable Space Asset"; 2.2. The Definition of "Space Asset"; 2.3. The Sphere of Application of the Convention; 2.3.1. General Rules Regarding the Sphere of Application of the Convention; 2.3.2. The Application of the Convention to Vehicles Only Temporarily in Space; 2.3.3. The Application of the Convention to Pre-existing Interests; 2.3.4. Internal Transactions.
- 2.3.5. Entry into Force2.4. Creating an International Interest; 2.4.1. The Requirement of a Written Agreement; 2.4.2. The Requirement of the "Power to Dispose"; 2.4.3. The Requirement of the Sufficient Identification of the Asset; 2.4.4. The Requirement of a Statement of Obligations Secured and the Permissibility of Future Advances; 2.5. Registering an International Interest; 2.5.1. The Registry; 2.5.2. Mechanics of Registration; 2.5.3. Registration of Prospective International Interests; 2.5.4. Duration and Discharge of a Registration; 2.5.5. Searching the Registry.
- 2.5.6. Errors in Search Results2.6. Priority; 2.6.1. The "First to File" Rule; 2.6.2. Priority among Buyers and Competing Claimants; 2.6.3. Subordination; 2.7. The Effects of Installation, Removal, and Docking of a Space Asset; 2.8. Assignment of Associated Rights and Related International Interests; 2.8.1. Formalities of an Assignment of Associated Rights; 2.8.2. Effect of an Assignment of Associated Rights; 2.8.3. Registering an Assignment of an International Interest; 2.8.4. Priority Issues Related to an Assignment of an International Interest; 2.9. Assignment of Debtor's Rights.
- 2.9.1. Formalities of a Rights Assignment2.9.2. Effect of a Rights Assignment; 2.9.3. Recording a Rights Assignment; 2.9.4. Priority among Multiple Assignees; 2.10. Sales; 2.11. Remedies; 2.11.1. The General Requirement of Commercial Reasonability; 2.11.2. Default; 2.11.3. Remedies for the Chargee; 2.11.4. Redemption; 2.11.5. Remedies for the Conditional Seller or Lessor; 2.11.6. Additional Remedies; 2.11.7. Remedies for the Assignee of Associated Rights as Security; 2.11.8. Remedies for the Assignee of Debtor's Rights as Security; 2.11.9. Interim Relief Pending Final Adjudication.