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Some landmarks of twentieth century contract law / Sir Guenter Treitel.

By: Treitel, G. H.
Publisher: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2002Description: xix, 141 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 019925575X (hbk.).Subject(s): Contracts -- Great Britain -- HistoryDDC classification: 346.4202
Contents:
Tble of cases. - Table of legislation. - Table of statutory instruments. - Introduction: Scope of discussion. 1. Agreements to Vary Contracts. 1. Introduction. 2. Increasing Pacts. (a) Consideration, Public Policy, and Duress. (b) Three-Party and Public Duty Cases: Benefit to Promisor. (c) Williams v Roffey Bros. (i) Facts and Result . (ii) Relation to Earlier Cases 20. 3. Decreasing Pacts. (a) Consideration and Duress 23. (b) Foakes v Beer: Protection of Creditors. (c) The High Trees Case. (i) Facts and Decision. (ii) Conflict with Protective Function. (iii) The 'Estoppel' Analogy. (iv) Cause of Action? (v) Differences between Kinds of Estoppel. 4. Cross-Overs. (a) High Trees and Increasing Pacts. (b) Williams v Roffey Bros and Decreasing Pacts. - 2. The Battle over Privity. 1. The Starting Point. 2. The Trust Exception. 3. Early Attacks on the Doctrine. 4. Third Parties Claiming the Benefit of Exemption Clauses. (a) Vicarious Immunity and Bailment on. Terms. (b) Rejection of Vicarious Immunity: The Midland. Silicones Case. (c) Ways round Privity: Himalaya Clauses. (d) Ways round Privity: Other Drafting Devices. 5. Binding Third Parties by Exemption Clauses. (a) The General Rule. (b) Ways round the General Rule. (i) Implied Contract. (ii) Sub-Bailment on Terms. 6. Beswick v Beswick. (a) Facts and Result . (b) Ways round Privity. (c) Tort Liability? (d). - 3. Types of Contractual Terms. 1. Conditions and Warranties. 2. Intermediate Terms. (a) The Hong Kong Fir Case. (b) Development and Policies. 3. Sale of Goods Act 1979, Section 15A. 4. Intermediate Terms and Warranties. 5. Insurance Warranties. 6. Fundamental Terms. (a) Exemption Clauses and Fundamental Breach. (b) Concept of Fundamental Term. (c) Problems of Construction. (d) Deviation. (e) Loss of Right to Rescind. - Index.
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Tble of cases. - Table of legislation. - Table of statutory instruments. - Introduction: Scope of discussion. 1. Agreements to Vary Contracts. 1. Introduction. 2. Increasing Pacts. (a) Consideration, Public Policy, and Duress. (b) Three-Party and Public Duty Cases: Benefit to Promisor. (c) Williams v Roffey Bros. (i) Facts and Result . (ii) Relation to Earlier Cases 20. 3. Decreasing Pacts. (a) Consideration and Duress 23. (b) Foakes v Beer: Protection of Creditors. (c) The High Trees Case. (i) Facts and Decision. (ii) Conflict with Protective Function. (iii) The 'Estoppel' Analogy. (iv) Cause of Action? (v) Differences between Kinds of Estoppel. 4. Cross-Overs. (a) High Trees and Increasing Pacts. (b) Williams v Roffey Bros and Decreasing Pacts. - 2. The Battle over Privity. 1. The Starting Point. 2. The Trust Exception. 3. Early Attacks on the Doctrine. 4. Third Parties Claiming the Benefit of Exemption Clauses. (a) Vicarious Immunity and Bailment on. Terms. (b) Rejection of Vicarious Immunity: The Midland. Silicones Case. (c) Ways round Privity: Himalaya Clauses. (d) Ways round Privity: Other Drafting Devices. 5. Binding Third Parties by Exemption Clauses. (a) The General Rule. (b) Ways round the General Rule. (i) Implied Contract. (ii) Sub-Bailment on Terms. 6. Beswick v Beswick. (a) Facts and Result . (b) Ways round Privity. (c) Tort Liability? (d). - 3. Types of Contractual Terms. 1. Conditions and Warranties. 2. Intermediate Terms. (a) The Hong Kong Fir Case. (b) Development and Policies. 3. Sale of Goods Act 1979, Section 15A. 4. Intermediate Terms and Warranties. 5. Insurance Warranties. 6. Fundamental Terms. (a) Exemption Clauses and Fundamental Breach. (b) Concept of Fundamental Term. (c) Problems of Construction. (d) Deviation. (e) Loss of Right to Rescind. - Index.