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The Modern Law of Contract 13th edition [Minkštas viršelis]

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(University of Exeter, UK),
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 542 pages, aukštis x plotis: 246x174 mm, weight: 1079 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 30-Aug-2019
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0367222914
  • ISBN-13: 9780367222918
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 542 pages, aukštis x plotis: 246x174 mm, weight: 1079 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 30-Aug-2019
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0367222914
  • ISBN-13: 9780367222918
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Raktažodžiai:
The Modern Law of Contract is a clear and logical textbook, written by an experienced author team with well over 50 years teaching and examining experience.

Fully updated to address recent developments in Contract Law, it offers a carefully tailored overview of all key topics for LLB and GDL courses. The book also includes a number of learning features designed to enhance comprehension and aid exam preparation, allowing the reader to:

understand and remember core topics: boxed chapter summaries offer a useful checklist for students, while illustrative diagrams help to clarify difficult concepts;

identify important cases and assess their relevance: Key case features highlight and contextualise the most significant cases;

reflect on how contract law operates in context: highlighted For thought features ask students to consider what if scenarios, while In focus features offer critical commentary on the law;

consolidate learning and prepare for assessment: further reading lists and companion website directions at the end of each chapter direct you to additional interactive resources to test and reinforce your knowledge.

Clearly written and easy to use, The Modern Law of Contract enables undergraduate students of contract law to fully engage with the topic and gain a profound understanding of this fundamental area.
Preface xv
Guide to using the book xviii
Guide to the companion website xx
Table of cases
xxiii
Table of legislation
xlix
Table of international legislation
lv
1 Introduction
1(30)
1.1 Overview
1(1)
1.2 Introduction
2(4)
1.3 Contract theory
6(1)
1.4 The classical law of contract
6(2)
1.5 The subject matter of contract law
8(5)
1.6 Discrete and relational transactions
13(2)
1.7 Contract, tort and restitution
15(2)
1.8 A law of contract or law of contracts?
17(3)
1.9 Different approaches to analysing contract
20(3)
1.10 International influences
23(1)
1.11 European influence on English contract law
24(5)
1.12 Further reading
29(2)
2 Forming The Agreement
31(62)
2.1 Overview
32(1)
2.2 Introduction
32(1)
2.3 Deeds and other formalities
33(2)
2.4 General lack of formal requirement
35(1)
2.5 The external signs of agreement
36(1)
2.6 Historical background
37(1)
2.7 Offer
37(10)
2.8 Unilateral and bilateral contracts
47(1)
2.9 Tenders
47(2)
2.10 Auctions
49(2)
2.11 Acceptance
51(8)
2.12 Methods of acceptance
59(21)
2.13 Acceptance and the termination of an offer
80(2)
2.14 Retraction of acceptance
82(3)
2.15 Certainty in offer and acceptance
85(4)
2.16 Summary of key points
89(1)
2.17 Further reading
90(3)
3 Consideration And Other Tests Of Enforceability
93(50)
3.1 Overview
94(1)
3.2 Introduction
94(1)
3.3 Deeds
95(1)
3.4 Consideration or reliance?
96(2)
3.5 Benefit and detriment
98(1)
3.6 Mutual promises
98(2)
3.7 Consideration need not be `adequate' but must be `sufficient'
100(4)
3.8 Past consideration is no consideration
104(2)
3.9 Performance of existing duties
106(11)
3.10 Consideration and the variation of contracts
117(3)
3.11 The doctrine of promissory estoppel
120(1)
3.12 Promissory estoppel and consideration
121(7)
3.13 The part payment of debts
128(5)
3.14 Other types of estoppel
133(1)
3.15 Alternative tests of enforceability
134(6)
3.16 Summary of key points
140(1)
3.17 Further reading
141(2)
4 Intention To Create Legal Relations
143(16)
4.1 Overview
143(1)
4.2 Introduction
144(2)
4.3 Domestic agreements
146(4)
4.4 Commercial agreements
150(4)
4.5 Collective agreements
154(2)
4.6 In focus: is a requirement of intention necessary?
156(1)
4.7 Summary of key points
157(1)
4.8 Further reading
158(1)
5 Privity
159(34)
5.1 Overview
160(1)
5.2 Introduction
160(1)
5.3 The rationale for the doctrine
161(3)
5.4 Development of the doctrine
164(4)
5.5 Evading the doctrine
168(1)
5.6 The Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999
168(6)
5.7 Damages on behalf of another
174(4)
5.8 The trust of a promise
178(1)
5.9 Collateral contracts
179(1)
5.10 The tort of negligence
180(2)
5.11 Statutory exceptions
182(1)
5.12 Privity and exclusion clauses
182(5)
5.13 Imposing burdens: restrictive covenants
187(2)
5.14 The role of the law of tort
189(1)
5.15 Summary of key points
189(1)
5.16 Further reading
190(3)
6 The Contents Of The Contract
193(42)
6.1 Overview
193(1)
6.2 Introduction
194(1)
6.3 Distinction between representations and terms
195(5)
6.4 Remedies for pre-contractual statements
200(4)
6.5 Express terms
204(11)
6.6 Implied terms
215(15)
6.7 The Consumer Rights Act 2015
230(1)
6.8 Statutory controls
231(1)
6.9 Summary of key points
232(1)
6.10 Further reading
232(3)
7 Clauses Excluding Or Limiting Liability
235(46)
7.1 Overview
235(1)
7.2 Introduction
236(2)
7.3 Common law rules
238(1)
7.4 Incorporation
238(6)
7.5 Construction
244(10)
7.6 Statutory controls
254(1)
7.7 Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977
255(15)
7.8 The Consumer Rights Act 2015
270(8)
7.9 Summary of key points
278(1)
7.10 Further reading
279(2)
8 Misrepresentation
281(32)
8.1 Overview
281(1)
8.2 Introduction
282(4)
8.3 Definition of misrepresentation
286(9)
8.4 Remedies for misrepresentation
295(12)
8.5 Exclusion of liability for misrepresentation
307(4)
8.6 Summary of key points
311(1)
8.7 Further reading
312(1)
9 Mistake
313(30)
9.1 Overview
313(1)
9.2 Introduction
314(1)
9.3 Categories of mistake
315(2)
9.4 Mistakes nullifying agreement (`common mistake')
317(7)
9.5 Mistakes negativing agreement
324(11)
9.6 Mistake in equity
335(2)
9.7 Forms of equitable relief
337(1)
9.8 Contracts signed under a mistake
338(2)
9.9 In focus: conclusions on `mistake'
340(1)
9.10 Summary of key points
341(1)
9.11 Further reading
342(1)
10 Duress
343(16)
10.1 Overview
343(1)
10.2 Introduction
344(1)
10.3 Duress by threats of violence or other coercion
345(5)
10.4 Economic duress
350(5)
10.5 Remedies for duress
355(1)
10.6 Summary of key points
356(1)
10.7 Further reading
357(2)
11 Undue Influence
359(30)
11.1 Overview
359(1)
11.2 Introduction
360(3)
11.3 Actual undue influence
363(1)
11.4 Presumed influence: recognised relationships
364(2)
11.5 Presumed influence: other relationships
366(2)
11.6 Relevance of the disadvantageous nature of the transaction
368(3)
11.7 Summary of current position on presumed undue influence
371(1)
11.8 Undue influence and third parties
371(10)
11.9 Remedies for undue influence
381(2)
11.10 Unconscionability and inequality of bargaining power
383(3)
11.11 Summary of key points
386(1)
11.12 Further reading
387(2)
12 Illegality And Public Policy
389(34)
12.1 Overview
390(1)
12.2 Introduction
391(1)
12.3 In focus: rationales for the unenforceability of illegal contracts
391(2)
12.4 Categories of illegality
393(8)
12.5 Contract to indemnify
401(1)
12.6 Effects of illegality: enforcement
402(3)
12.7 Effects of illegality: recovery of money or property
405(3)
12.8 Traditional exceptions to the traditional rule
408(4)
12.9 Severance
412(1)
12.10 In focus: proposals for reform
412(1)
12.11 Agreements contrary to public policy
413(1)
12.12 Contracts concerning marriage
414(2)
12.13 Contracts promoting sexual immorality
416(1)
12.14 Contracts to oust the jurisdiction of the courts
417(2)
12.15 Contracts in restraint of trade
419(1)
12.16 Effect of contracts contrary to public policy
419(1)
12.17 Wagering contracts
420(1)
12.18 Summary of key points
420(1)
12.19 Further reading
421(2)
13 Frustration
423(24)
13.1 Overview
423(1)
13.2 Introduction
424(3)
13.3 Frustrating events
427(6)
13.4 Limitations on the doctrine
433(3)
13.5 Effects of frustration: common law
436(2)
13.6 Effects of frustration: the Law Reform (Frustrated Contracts) Act 1943
438(6)
13.7 Summary of key points
444(1)
13.8 Further reading
445(2)
14 Discharge By Performance By Breach
447(26)
14.1 Overview
447(1)
14.2 Introduction
448(1)
14.3 Discharge by performance
449(6)
14.4 Tender of performance
455(1)
14.5 Time for performance
455(2)
14.6 Discharge by breach
457(8)
14.7 Some special types of breach
465(3)
14.8 Anticipatory breach
468(1)
14.9 Effect of breach: right of election
469(2)
14.10 Summary of key points
471(1)
14.11 Further reading
472(1)
15 Remedies And Restitutio
473(54)
15.1 Overview
473(1)
15.2 Introduction
474(1)
15.3 Damages: purpose
475(3)
15.4 Damages: measure
478(14)
15.5 Non-compensatory damages
492(7)
15.6 Limitations on recovery
499(11)
15.7 Liquidated damages and penalty clauses
510(3)
15.8 Restitution and unjust enrichment
513(6)
15.9 Specific performance
519(4)
15.10 Injunctions
523(1)
15.11 Summary of key points
524(1)
15.12 Further reading
525(2)
Bibliography 527(10)
Index 537
Richard Stone is Emeritus Professor of Law and Human Rights at the University of Lincoln, UK.

James Devenney is Head of the School of Law, University of Reading, UK, and McCann FitzGerald Chair in International Law and Business at the UCD Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, Ireland.