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Exploring contract law / edited by Jason W. Neyers, Richard Bronaugh and Stephen G. A. Pitel.

Contributor(s): Neyers, Jason W | Bronaugh, Richard | Pitel, Stephen G. A.
Publisher: Oxford : Hart Publishing, c2009Description: xix, 442 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781841139067 (hbk.); 1841139068 (hbk.).Subject(s): Contracts -- Congresses | Obligations (Law) -- Congresses | Damages -- CongressesDDC classification: 349.42
Contents:
1. The limits of contract. 2. Border control: some comparative remarks on the cartography of obligations. 3. Principle in contract Law: the doctrine of consideration. 4. Contractual interpretation at common law and civil Law: an exercise in comparative legal rhetoric. 5. Consideration and the morality of promising. 6. Justifying damages. 7. Damages and the right to performance: a golden victory or not? 8. Estoppels and rights-creating events: beyond wrongs and promises. 9. Lumley v Gye and the (over?) protection of contracts. 10. Contracting out of liability for deceit, inadvertent misrepresentation and negligent misstatement. 11. Assignments, trusts, property and obligations. 12. The nature of equitable assignment and anti-assignment clauses. 13. Coming to terms with The Great Peace in common mistake. 14. Contract mistake, intention in formation and vitiation: the oxymoron of Smith v Hughes. 15. From Morgan to Etridge: tracing the (Dis) integration of undue influence in the United Kingdom.
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"The chapters in this volume are the product of a symposium ... held at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law in January 2008"--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The limits of contract. 2. Border control: some comparative remarks on the cartography of obligations. 3. Principle in contract Law: the doctrine of consideration. 4. Contractual interpretation at common law and civil Law: an exercise in comparative legal rhetoric. 5. Consideration and the morality of promising. 6. Justifying damages. 7. Damages and the right to performance: a golden victory or not? 8. Estoppels and rights-creating events: beyond wrongs and promises. 9. Lumley v Gye and the (over?) protection of contracts. 10. Contracting out of liability for deceit, inadvertent misrepresentation and negligent misstatement. 11. Assignments, trusts, property and obligations. 12. The nature of equitable assignment and anti-assignment clauses. 13. Coming to terms with The Great Peace in common mistake. 14. Contract mistake, intention in formation and vitiation: the oxymoron of Smith v Hughes. 15. From Morgan to Etridge: tracing the (Dis) integration of undue influence in the United Kingdom.