Textbook on contract law
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 636
ISBN-13: 9780199687220
Subjects: Contracts
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction to the law of contract; title: 1.1.The role of contract; title: 1.2.The role of contract law; title: 1.3.The nature of contractual liability; title: 1.4.Theories of the law of contract; title: 1.5.The relationship between contract and tort; title: 1.6.The globalization of contract law; title: Further reading; title: pt. 1 Formation; title: 2.Agreement; title: 2.1.Determining the existence of agreement: The objective approach; title: 2.2.The traditional approach: Offer and acceptance; title: 2.3.Offers and invitations to treat; title: 2.4.Acceptance; title: 2.5.Termination of offers; title: 2.6.Unilateral contracts; title: Further reading; title: 3.Agreement problems; title: 3.1.Certainty of agreements; title: 3.2.Agreement mistake; title: 3.3.Types of mistake negativing agreement; title: 3.4.Mistakes in documents; title: Further reading; title: 4.Enforceability of promises: Consideration and promissory estoppel; title: 4.1.Introduction; title: 4.2.Identifying consideration; title: 4.3.Consideration must be sufficient, but need not be adequate; title: Contents note continued: 4.4.Performance of existing duties; title: 4.5.Alteration promises; title: 4.6.Alteration promises to pay more and alteration promises to accept less; title: 4.7.Conclusions: The future of consideration; title: 4.8.Absence of consideration and the defence of promissory estoppel; title: Further reading; title: 5.Intention to be legally bound, formalities, and capacity to contract; title: 5.1.Intention to be legally bound: The context; title: 5.2.Presumed intention; title: 5.3.A contextual approach; title: 5.4.Formalities: Unenforceability by defect of `form'; title: 5.5.Contractual capacity; title: Further reading; title: pt. 2 Content, interpretation, performance, and breach; title: 6.Content of the contract and principles of interpretation; title: 6.1.Pre-contractual statements: Terms or mere representations?; title: 6.2.Written contracts; title: 6.3.Oral contracts: Incorporation of written terms; title: 6.4.Implied terms; title: 6.5.Principles determining how to interpret contracts; title: Further reading; title: Contents note continued: 7.Exemption clauses and unfair contract terms; title: 7.1.Introduction; title: 7.2.Incorporation; title: 7.3.Construction; title: 7.4.Statutory control of exemption clauses: An overview; title: 7.5.The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977; title: 7.6.Unfair terms in consumer contracts; title: 7.7.Proposals for reform; title: Further reading; title: 8.Breach of contract; title: 8.1.Background: What is the process of discharge?; title: 8.2.Discharge by performance or agreement; title: 8.3.Discharge (termination) by occurrence of a condition subsequent; title: 8.4.Breach and discharge by breach (repudiatory breach); title: 8.5.What constitutes a repudiatory breach of contract?; title: 8.6.The entire obligation rule and repudiatory breach; title: 8.7.Anticipatory breach; title: Further reading; title: pt. 3 Enforcement of contractual obligations; title: 9.Damages for breach of contract; title: 9.1.The basis of recovery of damages in a contract claim; title: 9.2.The aim of compensation; title: 9.3.Quantification of loss: Lost expectation; title: Contents note continued: 11.8.Privity and imposing obligations upon third parties; title: Further reading; title: 12.Discharge by frustration: Subsequent impossibility; title: 12.1.Introduction; title: 12.2.The legal basis of the frustration doctrine; title: 12.3.Frustrating events; title: 12.4.Contracts concerning land; title: 12.5.Risk allocation and the foreseeability question; title: 12.6.Fault; title: 12.7.The legal effects of frustration; title: Further reading; title: pt. 4 Methods of policing the making of the contract; title: 13.Non-agreement mistake; title: 13.1.Introduction; title: 13.2.The contractual allocation of risk; title: 13.3.Categories of common mistake at common law; title: 13.4.Mistake as to quality at common law; title: 13.5.Is there an equitable jurisdiction to set aside a contract for a common mistake as to quality although the mistake does not render the contract void at common law?; title: 13.6.The Draft Common Frame of Reference, the Common European Sales Law, and cases of initial mistake; title: Further reading; title: 14.Misrepresentation; title: Contents note continued: 14.1.Introduction; title: 14.2.Actionable misrepresentations; title: 14.3.Representations that become terms; title: 14.4.Types of misrepresentation; title: 14.5.Remedies for misrepresentation: Rescission; title: 14.6.Damages for misrepresentation; title: 14.7.Excluding or limiting liability for misrepresentation; title: Further reading; title: 15.Duress, undue influence, and unconscionable bargains; title: 15.1.Duress; title: 15.2.Undue influence; title: 15.3.A doctrine of unconscionable bargaining?; title: 15.4.The Draft Common Frame of Reference, UNIDROIT, and the Common European Sales Law; title: Further reading; title: 16.Illegality; title: 16.1.Introduction: Policy and illegality; title: 16.2.Statutory illegality; title: 16.3.Gambling contracts: Legally enforceable; title: 16.4.Contracts that are contrary to public policy; title: 16.5.The effect of illegality; title: 16.6.Recovery of money or property; title: Further reading.