Anson's law of contract / by Sir Jack Beatson, Andrew Burrows, John Cartwright.
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TextPublication details: New York, United States of America : Oxford University Press Inc., c2010.Edition: 29th edDescription: xcvii, 750p. : col. ill. ; 25cmISBN: - 9780199282470
- The nature and function of contract
- The history of contractual obligations in English law
- European and international influences
- The content of contract law
- Contracts as part of the law of obligations
- Contract and property
- Formation of contract
- The agreement
- Establishing an agreement
- The offer
- The acceptance
- Termination of the offer
- Uncertain and incomplete agreements
- Intention to create legal relations
- Form
- Formal requirements
- Contracts by deed
- Contracts for which writing is required
- Consideration and promissory estoppel
- Consideration
- Promissory estoppel
- Appraisal of consideration and promissory estoppel
- Contents of the contract
- The terms of the contract
- Terms, collateral warranties and representations
- Conditions, warranties and intermediate terms
- Implied terms
- Construction of terms
- Exemption clauses and unfair terms
- Standard form of contract
- Incorporation
- Construction of exemption clauses
- Other common law rules controlling exemption clauses
- Statutory control of exemption clauses and unfair terms
- Factors tending to defeat contractual liability
- Incapacity
- Grounds of contractual incapacity
- The crown and public authorities
- Corporations and unincorporates associations
- Minors
- Persons lacking mentally capacity and drunken persons
- Mistake
- Categorizing mistakes
- Mistakes about the terms of the contract
- Mistakes about the identity of the person with whom the contract is made
- Mistakes of fact or law about the subject-matter of the contract or the surrounding circumstance
- Misrepresentation and non-disclosure
- Misrepresentation
- Duties of disclosure
- Duress, undue influence, and unconscionable bargains
- Duress
- Undue influence
- Unconscionable bargains
- Inequality of bargaining power?
- Illegality
- Statutory illegality
- Illegality at common law
- Common law and statutory control of anti-competitive agreements
- The effect of illegality
- Severance
- Performance and discharge
- Performance
- Time of performance
- Place of performance
- Order of performance
- Payment
- Vicarious performance
- Alternative modes of performance
- Right of party in breach to cure bad or incomplete performance
- Tender
- Partial performance
- Discharge by agreement
- Forms of discharge by agreement
- Discharge by frustration
- Emergence of the doctrine
- Instances of frustrations
- The theoretical basis of frustration
- Incidence of risk
- Self-induced frustration
- Leases and contracts for the sale of land
- Effects of frustration
- Discharge by breach
- Discharge at option of the injured party
- Forms of breach which justify discharge
- Consequences of discharge
- Loss of the right discharge
- Discharge by operation of law
- Merger
- Discharge by judgement of a court
- Alteration or cancellation of a written instrument
- Bankruptcy
- Compensatory nature of damages
- Basis of assessment of damages
- Causation
- Remoteness
- Mitigation
- Assessment of damages in contract for the sale of goods
- Claimant's contributory negligence
- The tax element in damages
- Interest
- Agreed damages clauses
- Specific remedies
- Actions for the agreed sum
- Specific performance
- Injunctions
- Equitable damages
- Restitutionary awards
- Restitution in respect of services or goods
- An account of profits or damages measured br benefit to contract-breaker
- Limitation of actions
- Limitation Act 1980
- Bars to equitable relief: laches
- Limits of the contractual obligation
- Third parties
- An acquisition of contractual rights by third parties
- The imposition of contractual liabilities upon Third parties
- Assignment
- Vicarious performance
- Novation
- Negotiable instruments
- Assignment by operation of law
- Agency
- Creation of agency
- Modes of creation
- Different kinds of agents
- Effect of agency
- The relations between the principle agent
- The relations between the principal and third parties
- The relations between the agent and third parties
- Termination of agent's authority
- Modes of termination
- Irrevocable authority
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Includes index (p. 725 - 750).
"ANSON'S LAW OF CONTRACT is a classic text in the field, renowned for offering an accurate, authoritative and stimulating account of the law and its underlying principles. It is essential reading for anyone wishing to gain a thorough understanding of contract law. In this twenty-ninth edition, Sir Jack Beatson is joined by Professor Andrew Burrows and Professor John Cartwright to create an exceptional author team.
- Provides comprehensive and detailed coverage of all topics covered on modern contract law courses, and is a valuable source of reference for practitioners and academics.
- Completely updated to incorporate all notable development in case law, legislation, and academic debate.
- Restructured to create a new part on the contents of the contract; and separate chapters on from, and on consideration and promissory estoppel."
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