Exploring Contract Law.
Neyers, Jason W.
Exploring Contract Law. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (462 pages)
Intro -- Prelims -- Foreword -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The Limits of Contract -- 2 Border Control: Some Comparative Remarks on the Cartography of Obligations -- 3 Principle in Contract Law: the Doctrine of Consideration -- 4 Contractual Interpretation at Common Law and Civil Law: An Exercise in Comparative Legal Rhetoric -- 5 Consideration and the Morality of Promising -- 6 Justifying Damages -- 7 Damages and the Right to Performance: A Golden Victory or Not? -- 8 Estoppels and Rights-Creating Events: Beyond Wrongs and Promises -- 9 Lumley v Gye and the (Over?)Protection of Contracts -- 10 Contracting Out of Liability for Deceit, Inadvertent Misrepresentation and Negligent Misstatement -- 11 Assignments, Trusts, Property and Obligations -- 12 The Nature of Equitable Assignment and Anti-Assignment Clauses -- 13 Coming to Terms with The Great Peace in Common Mistake -- 14 Contractual Mistake, Intention in Formation and Vitiation: the Oxymoron of Smith v Hughes -- 15 From Morgan to Etridge: Tracing the (Dis)Integration of Undue Influence in the United Kingdom -- Index.
This book, written by experts, deals with important theoretical and practical issues in the law of contract and closely-related areas of private law.
9781847315113
Contracts -- Congresses.
Electronic books.
KD1554.A75E97 2009
349.42
Exploring Contract Law. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (462 pages)
Intro -- Prelims -- Foreword -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The Limits of Contract -- 2 Border Control: Some Comparative Remarks on the Cartography of Obligations -- 3 Principle in Contract Law: the Doctrine of Consideration -- 4 Contractual Interpretation at Common Law and Civil Law: An Exercise in Comparative Legal Rhetoric -- 5 Consideration and the Morality of Promising -- 6 Justifying Damages -- 7 Damages and the Right to Performance: A Golden Victory or Not? -- 8 Estoppels and Rights-Creating Events: Beyond Wrongs and Promises -- 9 Lumley v Gye and the (Over?)Protection of Contracts -- 10 Contracting Out of Liability for Deceit, Inadvertent Misrepresentation and Negligent Misstatement -- 11 Assignments, Trusts, Property and Obligations -- 12 The Nature of Equitable Assignment and Anti-Assignment Clauses -- 13 Coming to Terms with The Great Peace in Common Mistake -- 14 Contractual Mistake, Intention in Formation and Vitiation: the Oxymoron of Smith v Hughes -- 15 From Morgan to Etridge: Tracing the (Dis)Integration of Undue Influence in the United Kingdom -- Index.
This book, written by experts, deals with important theoretical and practical issues in the law of contract and closely-related areas of private law.
9781847315113
Contracts -- Congresses.
Electronic books.
KD1554.A75E97 2009
349.42