Calculating promises
Subtitle: the emergence of modern American contract doctrine
By: Roy Kreitner.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780804753982
Subjects: Contracts -- United States -- History; Promise (Law) -- United States -- History
Description: "Calculating Promises examines the history of American contract law around the turn of the twentieth century. It meticulously details shifts in our conception of contract by juxtaposing scholarly accounts of contract with case law, and shows how the cases exhibit conflicts for which scholarship offers just one of many possible answers."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.