Contract law
Exercises; 4 Certainty and agreement mistakes; 4.1 Certainty; 4.2 Vagueness; 4.3 Incompleteness; 4.4 A general rule?; 4.5 A restitutionary approach?; 4.6 Mistake negativing consent; Summary; Exercises; 5 Consideration and form; 5.1 Requirements of form; 5.2 Consideration defined; 5.3 The many functions of consideration; 5.4 Consideration and motive; 5.5 The scope of the doctrine; 5.6 Consideration must be sufficient but it need not be adequate; 5.7 Trivial acts; 5.8 Intangible returns; 5.9 Comp…
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- Full title :Contract law / Ewan McKendrick QC (Hon), Registrar and Professor of English Private Law in the University of Oxford, Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall.
Summary
Exercises; 4 Certainty and agreement mistakes; 4.1 Certainty; 4.2 Vagueness; 4.3 Incompleteness; 4.4 A general rule?; 4.5 A restitutionary approach?; 4.6 Mistake negativing consent; Summary; Exercises; 5 Consideration and form; 5.1 Requirements of form; 5.2 Consideration defined; 5.3 The many functions of consideration; 5.4 Consideration and motive; 5.5 The scope of the doctrine; 5.6 Consideration must be sufficient but it need not be adequate; 5.7 Trivial acts; 5.8 Intangible returns; 5.9 Compromise and forbearance to sue; 5.10 Performance of a duty imposed by law.
A fully revised and updated edition of Ewan McKendrick's highly respected and ever-popular introduction to contract law.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2015.
- Edition:Eleventh edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
- Place of Publication:Basingstoke
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (440 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781137475800, 1137475803
- oclc:ocn948790886
- LC Classification:KD1554
- Dewey Decimal:346.42022
Table of Contents
Cover; Contents; Preface; Table of cases; Table of legislation; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The scope of the law of contract; 1.3 The basis of the law of contract; 1.4 Contract, tort and restitution; 1.5 Contract and empirical work; 1.6 A European contract law?; 1.7 An international contract law?; 1.8 The role of national contract law in a global economy; 1.9 Contract law and human rights; Part I: The formation and scope of a contract; 2 Agreement: clearing the ground; 2.1 Who decides that an agreement has been reached?; 2.2 A residual role for a subjective approach?
2.3 The objective test2.4 Has agreement been reached?; Summary; Exercises; 3 Offer and acceptance; 3.1 Offer and invitation to treat; 3.2 Display of goods for sale; 3.3 Advertisements; 3.4 Auction sales; 3.5 Tenders; 3.6 Time-tables and vending machines; 3.7 Acceptance; 3.8 Communication of the acceptance; 3.9 Acceptance in ignorance of the offer; 3.10 Prescribed method of acceptance; 3.11 Acceptance by silence; 3.12 Exceptions to the rule requiring communication of acceptance; 3.13 Acceptance in unilateral contracts; 3.14 Termination of the offer; 3.15 The limits of offer and acceptance.
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