A casebook on contract
By: Andrew Burrows, MA, BCL, LLM (Harvard), QC (Hon), FBA, Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple, professor of the Law of England in the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
Edition: Fourth edition.
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 839
ISBN-13: 9781849464468
Subjects: Contracts; Cases; Vertragsrecht
Description: This casebook offers undergraduate law students the ideal way to discover and understand contract law through reading highlights from leading cases. Designed to be used alongside a contract law textbook, it covers the entire undergraduate contract law course in a series of clearly presented chapters.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The formation of a contract; title: Offer and acceptance; title: Certainty and intention to create legal relations; title: Consideration and promissory estoppel; title: pt. 2. The terms of a contract; title: Identifying the terms; title: Interpreting the terms; title: Statutory control of unfair terms; title: pt. 3. Remedies for breach of contract; title: Termination; title: Damages; title: Direct enforcement; title: pt. 4. Privity of contract and third party rights; title: Privity of contract and third party rights; title: pt. 5. Factors allowing escape from a contract; title: Misrepresentation; title: Mistake; title: Frustration; title: Duress; title: Undue influence and exploitation of weakness.