Book excerpt: Now in its seventh edition, Lingard is the leading textbook on bank security documents. Widely cited, this is a core resource for both banking lawyers and restructuring and insolvency lawyers, in private practice or in-house, bankers dealing with security documents or recovery situations and insolvency practitioners. It covers all aspects of the subject matter in detail, including chapters on guarantees and third-party charges, facility letters, the debenture, fixed and floating charges and covenants, and covers security documents for land, shares, life policies, contracts, goods and money.