Beschreibung:
Jill Poole's bestselling Casebook on Contract Law provides students with a comprehensive selection of case law, addressing all aspects of the subject encountered on undergraduate courses.Extracts have been carefully chosen from a wide range of historical and contemporary cases to illustrate the reasoning processes of the courts, and to show how legal principles develop. Cases can either be analysed and discussed in isolation or, taken as a whole, the selection of cases form chapters providing a structured overview of the modern law of contract.Online Resource CentreThe casebook is fully supported by an Online Resource Centre, which provides:- Self-test questions and answers - Guidance on answering questions in contract law - Exercises and guidance on reading cases - An opportunity for students to ask the author any questions
Jill Poole's bestselling Casebook on Contract Law provides students with a structured discussion of current case law, addressing all key principles and decisions encountered on undergraduate courses, and developing student knowledge and skills in this core subject.
1 Guidance on reading cases; 2 Agreement; 3 Agreement problems; 4 Enforceability of promises: consideration and promissory estoppel; 5 Intention to be legally bound and capacity to contract; 6 Content of the contract and principles of interpretation; 7 Exemption clauses and unfair contract terms; 8 Breach of contract; 9 Damages for breach of contract; 10 Remedies providing for specific relief and restitutionary remedies; 11 Privity of contract and third party rights; 12 Discharge by frustration: subsequent impossibility; 13 Common mistake: initial impossibility; 14 Misrepresentation; 15 Duress, undue influence, and unconscionability; 16 Illegality