We shall introduce the class of strongly cancellative multiplicative monoids which contains the class of all totally ordered cancellative monoids and it is contained in the class of all cancellative monoids. If $G$ is a strongly cancellative monoid such that $hG\subseteq Gh$ for each $h\in G$ and if $R$ is a ring such that $aR\subseteq Ra$ for each $a\in R$, then the class of all non-singular left $R$-modules is a cover class if and only if the class of all non-singular left $RG$-modules is a cover class. These two conditions are also equivalent whenever...

Let $G$ be a multiplicative monoid. If $RG$ is a non-singular ring such that the class of all non-singular $RG$-modules is a cover class, then the class of all non-singular $R$-modules is a cover class. These two conditions are equivalent whenever $G$ is a well-ordered cancellative monoid such that for all elements $g,h\in G$ with $g<h$ there is $l\in G$ such that $lg=h$. For a totally ordered cancellative monoid the equalities $Z\left(RG\right)=Z\left(R\right)G$ and $\sigma \left(RG\right)=\sigma \left(R\right)G$ hold, $\sigma$ being Goldie’s torsion theory.