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Essays on contract /

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This revised edition has been updated and expanded to include a new essay on freedom of contract and the New Right, which charts the latest shift in the development of contract law. The author argues that this shift can be traced to the New Right's advocacy of political and economic freedom.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Atiyah, P. S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Clarendon, 1986.
Subjects:
Contracts > Great Britain.
Contrats > Grande-Bretagne.
Contracts.
Great Britain.
Law - Non-U.S.
Law, Politics & Government.
Law - Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The modern role of contract law
  • Contracts, promises and the law of obligations
  • Holmes and the theory of contract
  • Fuller and the theory of contract
  • Form and substance in contract law
  • The liberal theory of contract
  • Executory contracts, expectation damages and the economic analysis of contract
  • Consideration
  • a restatement
  • Judicial techniques and the law of contract
  • Misrepresentation, warranty and estoppel
  • Contract and fair exchange.