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a practical guide to deals contracts, agreements and promises
This book aims to explain the principles of contract law for the businessman, and to put those principles into their commercial context. Anyone involved in commercial transactions needs at least a basic understanding of the principles of contract law - the legal framework for all commercial activity. A lack of such a basic understanding at best results in a business which is less competitive and ultimately less profitable than it should be, and at worst can have expensive and sometimes disastrous commercial consequences.
Front Cover; Commercial Contracts: A Practical Guide to Deals, Contracts, Agreements and Promises; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. What is a contracts?; 1.1 Contract definition and the purpose of contract law; 1.2 Agreement; 1.3 Parties; 1.4 Contractual intention; 1.5 Privity of contract; Chapter 2. Parties; 2.1 Legal personality; 2.2 Contractual capacity; 2.3 Multipartite contracts; 2.4 Agency; Chapter 3. Entering into a contract; 3.1 Offer and acceptance; 3.2 Consideration; 3.3 The commercial realities of contracting; 3.4 Non-disclosure; 3.5 Tendering.
Chapter 4. The terms of a contract4.1 Problems of evidence; 4.2 Certainty of terms; 4.3 Statements which are not terms; 4.4 Express terms; 4.5 Exclusion clauses and indemnities; 4.6 The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977; 4.7 Implied terms; 4.8 Terms implied by statute; 4.9 Other legal presumptions; Chapter 5. Standard terms and conditions; 5.1 What are standard terms and conditions?; 5.2 The use of standard terms for convenience; 5.3 The use of standard terms for contractual advantage; 5.4 Standard terms and the Unfair Contract Terms Act.
5.5 The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1994Chapter 6. The interpretation of a contract; 6.1 About interpretation; 6.2 Principles of interpretation; 6.3 Specialised rules of interpretation; 6.4 Substantial written agreements; Chapter 7. Performance and non-performance; 7.1 Strict liability; 7.2 Qualified obligations; 7.3 Frustration; 7.4 Variation, termination and waiver; Chapter 8. Legal remedies for breach of contract; 8.1 Preliminary matters; 8.2 The right to terminate; 8.3 The right to damages; 8.4 Injunctions and orders for specific performance; 8.5 Repudiation.
8.6 Time limits8.7 About litigation; 8.8 Insolvency; Chapter 9. The shadow of litigation and insolvency; 9.1 Contractual devices; 9.2 Security against an asset; 9.3 Security from a third party; 9.4 Nagotiation and settlement; 9.5 Alternatives to litigation; Chapter 10. Invalid contracts; 10.1 Invalidity and its consequences; 10.2 Formative defects; 10.3 Statutory invalidity; 10.4 Repugnant contracts; Chapter 11. The involvement of third parties; 11.1 Voluntary assignment; 11.2 Novation; 11.3 Subcontracts; 11.4 Involuntary assignment; 11.5 Personal contracts.
Chapter 12. International transactions: the broader picture12.1 Systems of law; 12.2 Jurisdictional issues; 12.3 Understanding and trust; Index.
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