Contract cases and materials Beale, H. G. creator Bishop, W. D. (William D.) Furmston, M. P. text Casebooks (Law) enk Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2008 5th ed. monographic eng
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lix, 1269 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Contracts and contract law -- Contract, tort and restitution -- The functions of contract law -- Economic analysis of contract law -- Empirical work -- Consideration -- Intention to create legal relations -- Offer and acceptance -- Uncertainty and incompleteness -- Communication mistakes -- Express terms in oral agreements -- Contents of written contracts -- Inaccurate information and misrepresentation -- Gap-filling by interpretation -- Implied terms -- Discharge by frustration -- Expectation mistakes -- Discharge by construction -- Duties of disclosure -- Some preliminary questions -- Withholding performance and termination for default -- Damages -- Literal enforcement -- Restitutionary remedies -- Why are promises binding? -- Economic analysis of contract law -- The impact of the empirical studies -- Critical approaches to contract -- Developing the relational contract notion -- Fairness and distributive justice -- Transformation thesis -- Rescission, variation, waiver and promissory estoppel -- Adjustments in longer term contracts -- Duress -- Undue pressure and undue influence -- Unconscionable bargains -- A general principle? -- Standard-form contracts -- Exclusion clauses -- Unfair terms in consumer contracts -- Regulated contracts -- Contracts contrary to public policy -- Contracts involving the commission of a crime or a tort -- Contracts in restraint of trade -- Agency -- Privity and the benefit of a contract between others -- Subsequent assignment of the benefit of a contract -- Privity and burdens -- Assignment and the burden of a contract. H.G. Beale, W.D. Bishop, M.P. Furmston. Includes index. e-uk-en Contracts England KD1554.A7 B43 2008 346.4202 BEA 9780199287369 2007028712 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0722/2007028712.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0722/2007028712.html DLC 070711 20250416161427.0 14923435