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This tenth edition provides a wide-ranging and straightforward exposition of contract law. The text opens with an overview of the main issues surrounding contract law which places the subject in its wider context, then goes on to give a clear explanation of all the major areas of contract law encountered on undergraduate courses.
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Textbook on Contract Law
2014, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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2012, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction to the law of contract
1.1.The role of contract
1.2.The role of contract law
1.3.The nature of contractual liability
1.4.Theories of the law of contract
1.5.The relationship between contract and tort
1.6.The globalization of contract law
Further reading
pt. 1 Formation
2.Agreement
2.1.Determining the existence of agreement: The objective approach
2.2.The traditional approach: Offer and acceptance
2.3.Offers and invitations to treat
2.4.Acceptance
2.5.Termination of offers
2.6.Unilateral contracts
Further reading
3.Agreement problems
3.1.Certainty of agreements
3.2.Agreement mistake
3.3.Types of mistake negativing agreement
3.4.Mistakes in documents
Further reading
4.Enforceability of promises: Consideration and promissory estoppel
4.1.Introduction
4.2.Identifying consideration
4.3.Consideration must be sufficient, but need not be adequate
Contents note continued: 4.4.Performance of existing duties
4.5.Alteration promises
4.6.Alteration promises to pay more and alteration promises to accept less
4.7.Conclusions: The future of consideration
4.8.Absence of consideration and the defence of promissory estoppel
Further reading
5.Intention to be legally bound, formalities, and capacity to contract
5.1.Intention to be legally bound: The context
5.2.Presumed intention
5.3.A contextual approach
5.4.Formalities: Unenforceability by defect of `form'
5.5.Contractual capacity
Further reading
pt. 2 Content, interpretation, performance, and breach
6.Content of the contract and principles of interpretation
6.1.Pre-contractual statements: Terms or mere representations?
6.2.Written contracts
6.3.Oral contracts: Incorporation of written terms
6.4.Implied terms
6.5.Principles determining how to interpret contracts
Further reading
Contents note continued: 7.Exemption clauses and unfair contract terms
7.1.Introduction
7.2.Incorporation
7.3.Construction
7.4.Statutory control of exemption clauses: An overview
7.5.The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977
7.6.Unfair terms in consumer contracts
7.7.Proposals for reform
Further reading
8.Breach of contract
8.1.Background: What is the process of discharge?
8.2.Discharge by performance or agreement
8.3.Discharge (termination) by occurrence of a condition subsequent
8.4.Breach and discharge by breach (repudiatory breach)
8.5.What constitutes a repudiatory breach of contract?
8.6.The entire obligation rule and repudiatory breach
8.7.Anticipatory breach
Further reading
pt. 3 Enforcement of contractual obligations
9.Damages for breach of contract
9.1.The basis of recovery of damages in a contract claim
9.2.The aim of compensation
9.3.Quantification of loss: Lost expectation
Contents note continued: 11.8.Privity and imposing obligations upon third parties
Further reading
12.Discharge by frustration: Subsequent impossibility
12.1.Introduction
12.2.The legal basis of the frustration doctrine
12.3.Frustrating events
12.4.Contracts concerning land
12.5.Risk allocation and the foreseeability question
12.6.Fault
12.7.The legal effects of frustration
Further reading
pt. 4 Methods of policing the making of the contract
13.Non-agreement mistake
13.1.Introduction
13.2.The contractual allocation of risk
13.3.Categories of common mistake at common law
13.4.Mistake as to quality at common law
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?
13.6.The Draft Common Frame of Reference, the Common European Sales Law, and cases of initial mistake
Further reading
14.Misrepresentation
Contents note continued: 14.1.Introduction
14.2.Actionable misrepresentations
14.3.Representations that become terms
14.4.Types of misrepresentation
14.5.Remedies for misrepresentation: Rescission
14.6.Damages for misrepresentation
14.7.Excluding or limiting liability for misrepresentation
Further reading
15.Duress, undue influence, and unconscionable bargains
15.1.Duress
15.2.Undue influence
15.3.A doctrine of unconscionable bargaining?
15.4.The Draft Common Frame of Reference, UNIDROIT, and the Common European Sales Law
Further reading
16.Illegality
16.1.Introduction: Policy and illegality
16.2.Statutory illegality
16.3.Gambling contracts: Legally enforceable
16.4.Contracts that are contrary to public policy
16.5.The effect of illegality
16.6.Recovery of money or property
Further reading.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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