Corbin on contracts
By: John E. Murray, Jr.
Edition: Desk ed.
Publisher: LexisNexis
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Newark, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781422427521
Subjects: Contracts -- United States
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preliminary definitions; title: Offers : creation and duration of power of acceptance; title: Acceptance and rejection of offers; title: Indefiniteness and mistake in expression; title: Consideration; title: Consideration : mutuality of obligation, requirement, and output contracts, effect of option; title: Consideration : effect of pre-existing duty; title: Reliance on a promise as a ground for enforcement : the doctrine of promissory estoppel; title: Past consideration and moral obligation; title: Contracts under seal, recognizances, negotiable instruments and documents, and letters of credit; title: Option contracts and rights of first refusal; title: History and legal operation of the statute; title: Statute of frauds, oral variation or rescission contracts partly within; title: Manner of raising defenses : restitution and reformation; title: Statute of frauds, debts of another, suretyship, and guaranty; title: Debts of another, leading object rule, indemnity contracts; title: Statute of frauds : interests in land; title: Interests in land : effect of part performance of oral contract; title: Statute of frauds : contracts not performable within one year; title: Statute of frauds : contracts in consideration of marriage; title: Statute of frauds : contracts for the sale of goods; title: Substance of the memorandum : its nature and contents; title: Formal requirements : writing, record, signature, oral evidence; title: Interpretation of contracts; title: Interpretation : the process called implication; title: The parol evidence rule; title: Capacity of parties; title: Avoidance or reformation for misconduct or mistake; title: Unconscionability and the duty to read; title: Conditions of legal duty; title: Express conditions and promises; title: Constructive conditions : failure to perform the agreed exchange; title: Constructive conditions in sale of goods; title: Constructive conditions in service contracts, charter parties, and leases; title: Condition in installment contracts : divisibility; title: Substantial performance, its character and effect; title: Condition of performance on time, condition of notice; title: Aleatory contracts : no agreed exchange of performances; title: Condition subsequent, analysis, pleading, and burden of proof; title: Elimination of conditions by waiver or prevention; title: Preliminary analysis, issues and terminology; title: Third party beneficiary history; title: Third party beneficiary statutes; title: Intent to benefit, restatements, interpretation; title: Beneficiaries of specific types of contracts; title: Remedies, powers and defenses, beneficiary, promisee, and promisor; title: Preliminary analysis, concepts, terminology, source of law; title: Gift assignments; title: Assignability and delegability, freedom, and its limitations; title: Conditional and future rights, and after-acquired property; title: Legal effects of assignment : defenses and priorities; title: Joint and several contracts; title: Varieties of breaches of contracts : total and partial breaches; title: Breach of contract by anticipatory repudiation; title: Purpose and extent of damages : causation, compensation, value; title: Forseeability, anticipated profits, degrees of uncertainty; title: Alternative measures : expenditures, avoidable consequences, interest; title: Anticipatory repudiation; title: Liquidated damages and penalties; title: Damages for mental suffering, punitive damages, lending money, alternative contracts, contracts for the benefit of a third person; title: Building contracts, employment, sales of land, sales of goods; title: Common law and equity, general requirements for obtaining restitution; title: Restitution in favor of a plaintiff in default; title: Adequacy of other remedies; title: Special reasons for denying specific enforcement; title: Mutuality of remedy, negative contracts, liquidated damages; title: Election of remedies; title: Performance, tender, rescission, release, gift, surrender, cancellation; title: Contract not to sue; title: Discharge by nonperformance of condition, breach, failure of consideration, prevention, power reserved, condition subsequent; title: The legal operation of an executory accord; title: Accord and satisfaction; title: Substituted contract and novation; title: Account stated; title: Specialties, alteration, judgment, award, claim preclusion; title: Impossibility of performance, personal inability; title: Death or destruction of specific things, prorating supply; title: Legal prohibition, government prohibition, and exigencies of war; title: Discharge by frustration of purpose; title: Impossibility of performance of a condition : restitution in cases of impossibility; title: Introduction to contracts contrary to public policy; title: Contracts in restraint of competition; title: Contracts involving familial relationships; title: Sunday contracts; title: Bargains harmful to the administration of justice; title: Bargains harmful to public or performance of fiduciary duty; title: Bargains to defraud or otherwise injure third persons; title: Wagering bargains; title: Usury bargains; title: Miscellaneous bargains contrary to public policy; title: Effects of being contrary to public policy.