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2010

Wood, Roderick J.

Introduction: Working out a satisfactory legal analysis of subordination agreements is a slippery business. A subordination agreement involves a contractual modification of the legal rules that ordinarily govern the order of repayment or distribution to creditors or the priority ranking of their...

1996

Wood, Roderick J.

This article traces the evolution of the personal property registry in Alberta from the decentralized regime of the chattel security registry which was present prior to 1922, through the establishment of the centralized Corporate Mortgage Registry, Vehicle Registry and Central Registry, up to the...

1989

Wood, Roderick J.

This article examines the evolution of the floating charge in England and Canada, and predicts its demise as a conceptually discrete security device upon the enactment of personal property security legislation in the provinces. However, the author contends that a study of the floating charge can...

1992

Wood, Roderick J.

Introduction: The implementation of personal property security legislation in the Western provinces brought about a unification and rationalization of the registry systems. The Personal Property Security Act created a single registry for security interests in personal property under provincial...

2001

Wood, Roderick J.

Provides information on the nature and definition of federal security interest in Canada. Details of the Bank Act security provisions and the Canadian Shipping Act ship mortgage provisions; Structure of the provincial personal property security system; Interaction between the provisions and the...

1984

Wood, Roderick J.

Introduction: The law governing the pledge of documents of title in Ontario is a curious mixture of statutory provisions and common law concepts. Much of the legislation is of an ancient lineage. It does not purport to create a comprehensive or coherent body of law; it was enacted merely to...

1995

Wood, Roderick J.

Introduction: Alberta is set to become the first Canadian common law jurisdiction to comprehensively reform its judgment enforcement law. Although it was not the first province to study reform of this area of law,' it was the first to act. The Civil Enforcement Act (CEA) was passed on November...

2003

Wood, Roderick J.

This article examines the use of all obligation clauses in security agreements and their potential to transform an unsecured claim into a more valuable secured claim upon an assignment of the unsecured claim or the security agreement. The author addresses three arguments that have been levelled...