Contract
Subtitle: cases and materials
By: H.G. Beale, W.D. Bishop, M.P. Furmston.
Contributors: Bishop, W. D.; Furmston, M. P.
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1269
ISBN-13: 9780199287369
Subjects: Contracts -- England -- Cases; Contracts -- Wales -- Cases
Genres: Cases.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Contracts and contract law; title: Contract, tort and restitution; title: The functions of contract law; title: Economic analysis of contract law; title: Empirical work; title: Consideration; title: Intention to create legal relations; title: Offer and acceptance; title: Uncertainty and incompleteness; title: Communication mistakes; title: Express terms in oral agreements; title: Contents of written contracts; title: Inaccurate information and misrepresentation; title: Gap-filling by interpretation; title: Implied terms; title: Discharge by frustration; title: Expectation mistakes; title: Discharge by construction; title: Duties of disclosure; title: Some preliminary questions; title: Withholding performance and termination for default; title: Damages; title: Literal enforcement; title: Restitutionary remedies; title: Why are promises binding?; title: The impact of the empirical studies; title: Critical approaches to contract; title: Developing the relational contract notion; title: Fairness and distributive justice; title: Transformation thesis; title: Rescission, variation, waiver and promissory estoppel; title: Adjustments in longer term contracts; title: Duress; title: Undue pressure and undue influence; title: Unconscionable bargains; title: A general principle?; title: Standard-form contracts; title: Exclusion clauses; title: Unfair terms in consumer contracts; title: Regulated contracts; title: Contracts contrary to public policy; title: Contracts involving the commission of a crime or a tort; title: Contracts in restraint of trade; title: Agency; title: Privity and the benefit of a contract between others; title: Subsequent assignment of the benefit of a contract; title: Privity and burdens; title: Assignment and the burden of a contract.