Understanding the Law of Obligations
Subtitle: Essays on Contract, Tort and Restitution
Publisher: Hart Pub.
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781847311429; 9781280808715
Subjects: Contracts; Torts; Obligations (Law); Restitution
Description: Through studies of the law of contract, tort and restitution, this text describes the law of obligations and how it is likely to develop in the future, providing a view of the main reforms needed.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Preliminaries; Contents; Foreword; Table of Cases; Table of Statutes and Supra national Legislation; 1 Dividing the Law of Obligations; 2 Solving the Problem of Concurrent Liability; 3 Understanding the Law of Restitution: A Map Through the Thicket; 4 Free Acceptance and the Law of Restitution; 5 Restitution Where do We Go From Here; 6 In Defence of Tort; 7 Legislative Reform of Remedies for Breach of Contract; 8 Improving Contract and Tort: the View from the Law Commission; Index.