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lix, 870 pages ; 25 cm |
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Contents note continued: (1).The Narrow Scope of Common Mistake Rendering a Contract Void -- Couturier v Hastie -- Bell v Lever Brothers Ltd -- McRae v Commonwealth Disposals Commission -- Associated Japanese Bank International Ltd v Credit du Nord SA -- Great Peace Shipping Ltd v Tsavliris Salvage (International) Ltd, The Great Peace -- Brennan v Bolt Burdon -- (2).A Wider Equitable Doctrine of Common Mistake Rejected -- Solle v Butcher -- Great Peace Shipping Ltd v Tsavliris Salvage (International) Ltd, The Great Peace -- (3).Equitable Rectification for Common Mistake -- Rose (Frederick E) (London) v Pim (William H) Junior & Co -- Joscelyn v Nissen -- Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd -- Additional Reading -- 13.Frustration -- 1.The Early Approach of Absolute Liability -- Paradine v Jane -- 2.The Kinds of Events that Amount to Frustration -- (1).Physical Impossibility -- Taylor v Caldwell -- Jackson v Union Marine Insurance Co Ltd -- |
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Contents note continued: (2).Does the Clause Pass or Fail the Reasonableness Test? -- Howard Marine & Dredging Co v A Ogden & Sons (Excavations) Ltd -- Walker v Boyle -- Cleaver v Schyde Investments Ltd -- Additional Reading -- 12.Mistake -- 1.Unilateral Mistake -- (1).The General Position: No Escape for Unilateral Mistake -- Smith v Hughes -- (2).Exceptions where Unilateral Mistake Invalidates the Contract -- (a).Objective Ambiguity -- Raffles v Wichelhaus -- Scriven Brothers & Co v Hindley & Co -- (b).Unilateral Mistake as to Terms or Identity Known to the Other Party -- Hartog v Colin & Shields -- Cundy v Lindsay -- Phillips v Brooks Ltd -- Ingram v Little -- Lewis v Averay -- Shogun Finance Ltd v Hudson -- (c).Non Est Factum -- Saunders v Anglia Building Society (sub nom Gallie v Lee) -- (d).Equitable Rectification for Unilateral Mistake -- Thomas Bates & Son Ltd v Wyndham's (Lingerie) Ltd -- Commission for the New Towns v Cooper (GB) Ltd -- 2.Common Mistake -- |
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Contents note continued: (2).Legal Impossibility (ie Subsequent Illegality) -- Metropolitan Water Board v Dick Kerr and Co Ltd -- (3).Cancellation of Events -- Krell v Henry -- Herne Bay Steam Boat Company v Hutton -- (4).No Frustration merely because Performance made more Onerous/Expensive -- Davis Contractors Ltd v Fareham Urban District Council -- Ocean Tramp Tankers Corporation v V/O Sovfracht, The Eugenia -- 3.Factors Excluding Frustration -- (1).Self-induced Frustration -- Maritime National Fish Ltd v Ocean Trawlers Ltd -- J Lauritzen AS v Wijsmuller B V, The Super Servant Two -- (2).Express Provision -- Metropolitan Water Board v Dick Kerr and Co Ltd -- 4.The Juristic Basis of Frustration -- National Carriers v Panalpina (Northern) Ltd -- 5.The Effects of Frustration -- Law Reform (Frustrated Contracts) Act 1943 -- (1).Overview of the 1943 Act -- (2).Cases on the 1943 Act -- BP Exploration Co (Libya) v Hunt (No 2) -- Gamerco SA v ICM/Fair Warning (Agency) Ltd -- |
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Contents note continued: (a).The General Rule: Acceptance Must Be Received by Offeror -- Entores Ltd v Miles Far East Corporation -- Brinkibon Ltd v Stahag Stahl und Stahlwarenhandelsgesellschaft mbH -- (b).Acceptance by Post -- Household Fire and Carriage Accident Insurance Co Ltd v Grant -- Holwell Securities Ltd v Hughes -- (c).Waiver by Offeror of the Need for Communication of Acceptance -- Felthouse v Bindley -- (4).Prescribed Mode of Acceptance -- Manchester Diocesan Council for Education v Commercial and General Investments Ltd -- (5).Acceptance in Ignorance of an Offer -- R v Clarke -- (6).Acceptance in Unilateral Contracts -- Errington v Errington -- Soulsbury v Soulsbury -- 4.Termination of an Offer -- (1).Revocation -- Byrne & Co v Van Tienhoven & Co -- Dickinson v Dodds -- (2).Rejection -- Hyde v Wrench -- Stevenson, Jacques & Co v McLean -- 5.Problematic Offer And Acceptance -- The Satanita -- Additional Reading -- |
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Contents note continued: (a).The Precise Aim of Contractual Compensation: Protecting the Expectation Interest -- Robinson v Harman -- (b).Difference in the Value of Property or Cost of Cure? -- Radford v de Froberville -- Ruxley Electronics and Construction Ltd v Forsyth -- (c).Assessment According to the Chances -- Chaplin v Hicks -- (d).Contractual Damages Protecting the Reliance Interest? -- Anglia TV v Reed -- C & P Haulage v Middleton -- CCC Films (London) Ltd v Impact Quadrant Films Ltd -- Omak Maritime Ltd v Mamola Challenger Shipping Co, The Mamola Challenger -- (e).The Date for Assessment of Damages -- Golden Strait Corp v Nippon Yusen Kubishika Kaisha, The Golden Victory -- (2).Limitations on Compensation -- (a).Remoteness -- Hadley v Baxendale -- Victoria Laundry (Windsor) Ltd V Newman Industries Ltd -- Koufos v C Czarnikow Ltd, The Heron II -- Parsons (Livestock) Ltd v Uttley Ingham & Co Ltd -- Transfield Shipping Inc v Mercator Shipping Inc, The Achilleas -- |
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Contents note continued: 1.Requirements of Misrepresentation -- (1).False Statement of Fact or Law -- (a).Statements of Opinion -- Smith v Land and House Property Corporation -- Bisset v Wilkinson -- (b).Statements of Intention -- Edgington v Fitzmaurice -- (c).Silence: No Duty of Disclosure -- With v O'Flanagan -- (2).Reliance -- Redgrave v Hurd -- Edgington v Fitzmaurice -- 2.Rescission for Misrepresentation -- (1).What Does Rescission Mean? -- Whittington v Seale-Hayne -- (2).Bars to Rescission -- Erlanger v New Sombrero Phosphate Co -- Leaf v International Galleries -- Salt v Stratstone Specialist Ltd -- (3).How Does One Rescind? -- Car and Universal Finance Co Ltd v Caldwell -- 3.Damages for Misrepresentation -- (1).Fraudulent Misrepresentation: the Tort of Deceit -- Derry v Peek -- Doyle v Olby (Ironmongers) Ltd -- Smith New Court Ltd v Scrimgeour Vickers (Asset Management) Ltd -- (2).Negligent Misrepresentation Actionable in the Tort of Negligence -- |
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Contents note continued: 1.The Award of an Agreed Sum -- White and Carter (Councils) Ltd v McGregor -- Clea Shipping Corporation v Bulk Oil International Ltd, The Alaskan Trader -- Reichman Beveridge -- 2.Specific Performance -- (1).The Primary Restriction---Adequacy of Damages -- Falcke v Gray -- Sky Petroleum Ltd v VIP Petroleum Ltd -- Beswick v Beswick -- (2).The Constant Supervision Objection -- Co-operative Insurance Society Ltd v Argyll Stores (Holdings) Ltd -- (3).Contracts for Personal Service -- Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, section 236 -- Powell v Brent London Borough Council -- (4).Want of Mutuality -- Price v Strange -- 3.Injunctions -- Lumley v Wagner -- Warner Bros Pictures Inc v Nelson -- Page One Records v Britton -- Warren v Mendy -- LauritzenCool AB v Lady Navigation Inc -- Additional Reading -- pt. FOUR PRIVITY OF CONTRACT AND THIRD PARTY RIGHTS -- 10.Privity Of Contract And Third Party Rights -- 1.Introduction -- |
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Contents note continued: 1.The Meaning of Termination for Breach -- Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd -- 2.Conditions, Warranties and Innominate Terms -- Sale of Goods Act 1979, sections 12--15 -- Hongkong Fir Shipping Co Ltd v Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd -- Maredelanto Compania Naviera SA v Bergbau -- Handel GmbH, The Mihalis Angelos -- L Schuler AG v Wickman Machine Tool Sales Ltd -- Cehave NV v Bremer Handelsgesellschaft mbH, The Hansa Nord -- Bunge Corporation v Tradax Export SA -- Sale of Goods Act 1979, section 15A -- 3.Termination Clauses -- Lombard North Central plc v Butterworth -- Rice v Great Yarmouth Borough Council -- 4.Anticipatory Breach -- Hochster v De La Tour -- 5.Restitution after Termination for Breach -- 6.Consumer Contracts for Goods (or Digital Content) -- Additional Reading -- 8.Damages -- 1.Compensatory Damages -- (1).Basic Issues in Applying the Compensatory Aim -- |
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Contents note continued: 2.Certainty And Intention To Create Legal Relations -- 1.Certainty -- (1).Vagueness -- Hillas & Co Ltd v Areas Ltd -- Scammell and Nephew Ltd v Ouston -- (2).Price Not Fixed -- May and Butcher Ltd v R -- Sudbrook Trading Estate Ltd v Eggleton -- (3).Agreements to Negotiate -- Walford v Miles -- (4).A Non-contractual Solution -- British Steel Corporation v Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Co Ltd -- 2.Intention to Create Legal Relations -- (1).Social and Domestic Agreements -- Balfour v Balfour -- Jones v Padavatton -- (2).Commercial Agreements -- Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Commissioners of Customs and Excise -- Additional Reading -- 3.Consideration And Promissory Estoppel -- 1.Consideration -- (1).The Consideration Need Not Be Adequate -- Chappell & Co Ltd v Nestle Co Ltd -- (2).Past Consideration Does Not Count -- Eastwood v Kenyan -- Pao On v Lau Yiu Long -- (3).Consideration and the Promise to Perform, or Performance of, a Pre-existing Duty -- |
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Contents note continued: 2.Four Cases Establishing or Confirming the Privity Doctrine (on its Benefit Side) -- Tweddle v Atkinson -- Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co Ltd v Selfridge -- Scruttons Ltd v Midland Silicones Ltd -- Beswick v Beswick -- 3.Exceptions to Privity (on its Benefit Side) -- (1).Agency -- (2).Assignment -- (3).Trusts of the Promise -- (4).Statutory Exceptions -- (5).Covenants Concerning Land -- (6).The Tort of Negligence -- (7).Enforcement by Third Parties of Exemption Clauses -- New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd v AM Satterthwaite & Co Ltd, The Eurymedon -- 4.The Promisee's Remedies in a Contract Made for the Benefit of a Third Party -- (1).Specific Performance and Injunctions -- Beswick v Beswick -- (2).Damages -- Jackson v Horizon Holidays Ltd -- Woodar Investment Development Ltd v Wimpey Construction UK Ltd -- Darlington Borough Council v Wiltshier Northern Ltd -- Alfred McAlpine Construction Ltd v Panatown Ltd -- 5.The Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 -- |
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Contents note continued: 2.Incorporation of a Party's Written Terms -- (1).Signature -- L'Estrange v F Graucob Ltd -- Curtis v Chemical Cleaning and Dyeing Co -- (2).Reasonable Notice -- Parker v The South Eastern Railway Company -- Chapel ton v Barry Urban District Council -- Olley v Marlborough Court Ltd -- Thornton v Shoe Lane Parking Ltd -- In terfoto Picture Library Ltd v Stiletto Visual Programmes Ltd -- AEG (UK) Ltd v Logic Resource Ltd -- O'Brien v MGN Ltd -- (3).Course of Dealing -- McCutcheon v David MacBrayne Ltd -- Hollier v Rambler Motors (AMC) Ltd -- (4).The Parties' Trade Practice -- British Crane Hire Corporation Ltd v Ipswich Plant Hire Ltd -- 3.Implied Terms -- (1).Terms Implied by the Courts -- (a).Terms Implied by Fact -- The Moorcock -- Attorney-General of Belize v Belize Telecom Ltd -- Marks and Spencer plc v BNP Paribas Services Trust Company (Jersey) Limited -- Yam Seng Pte Limited v International Trade Corporation Limited -- (b).Terms Implied by Law -- |
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Contents note continued: 6.The Relationship Between Common Mistake and Frustration -- Amalgamated Investment & Property Co v John Walker & Sons Ltd -- Additional Reading -- 14.Duress -- 1.Duress of the Person -- Barton v Armstrong -- 2.Economic Duress -- (1).Threats to Break (or to Induce Another to Break) a Contract -- North Ocean Shipping Co Ltd v Hyundai Construction Co Ltd, The Atlantic Baron -- Pao On v Lau Yiu Long -- Universe Tankships of Monrovia v International Transport Workers Federation, The Universe Sentinel -- B & S Contracts & Design Ltd v Victor Green Publications Ltd -- Atlas Express Ltd v Kafco (Importers and Distributors) Ltd -- Williams v Roffey Bros & Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd -- Dimskal Shipping Co SA v International Transport Workers Federation, The Evia Luck -- Huyton SA v Peter Cremer GmbH & Co -- (2).̀Lawful Act' Duress -- CTN Cash and Carry Ltd v Gallaher Ltd -- R v Attorney General for England and Wales -- |
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Contents note continued: Baird Textiles Holdings Ltd v Marks & Spencer plc -- (3).Promissory Estoppel Requires a Clear and Unequivocal Promise -- Woodhouse AC Israel Cocoa SA v Nigerian Produce Marketing Co Ltd -- (4).Does Promissory Estoppel Require Reliance or Detrimental Reliance? -- WJ Alan & Co Ltd v El Nasr Export and Import Co -- Societe Italo-Belge pour le Commerce et l'Industrie SA v Palm and Vegetable Oils (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, The Post Chaser -- (5).Promissory Estoppel Cannot be Founded on a Promise Induced by the Promisee's Inequitable Conduct -- D & C Builders Ltd v Rees -- (6).Does Promissory Estoppel Extinguish or Suspend Rights? -- Tool Metal Manufacturing Co Ltd v Tungsten Electric Co Ltd -- Additional Reading -- pt. TWO THE TERMS OF A CONTRACT -- 4.Identifying The Terms -- 1.Terms or Mere Representations? -- Oscar Chess Ltd v Williams -- Dick Bentley Productions Ltd v Harold Smith (Motors) Ltd -- Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Mardon -- |
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Contents note continued: Hedley Byrne & Co Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd -- Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Mardon -- (3).Negligent and Purely Innocent Misrepresentation under the Misrepresentation Act 1967 -- Misrepresentation Act 1967, section 2 -- (a).Overview of Section 2 -- (b).Cases on Section 2(1) of the Misrepresentation Act 1967 -- Howard Marine and Dredging Co Ltd v A Ogden & Sons (Excavations) Ltd -- Royscot Trust Ltd v Rogerson -- (c).Cases on Section 2(2) of the Misrepresentation Act 1967 -- William Sindall Plc v Cambridgeshire County Council -- Salt v Stratstone Specialist Ltd -- 4.Exemption of Liability for Misrepresentation: Misrepresentation Act 1967, Section 3 -- Misrepresentation Act 1967, section 3 -- (1).What Counts as an Exemption Clause Falling Within Section 3? -- Overbrooke Estates Ltd v Glencombe Properties Ltd -- Cremdean Properties Ltd v Nash -- Government of Zanzibar v British Aerospace (Lancaster House) Ltd -- |
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Contents note continued: Holder v Rambler Motors (AMC) Ltd -- (2).Excluding or Limiting Liability for Fundamental Breach -- Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd -- (3).Construing Limitation Clauses -- Ailsa Craig Fishing Co Ltd v Malvern Fishing Co Ltd -- George Mitchell (Chesterhall) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd -- Additional Reading -- 6.Statutory Control Of Exemption Clauses And Unfair Terms -- 1.The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 -- Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977, sections 1--3, 6--14, 26--27, 29, Schedules 1 and 2 -- (1).Overview of the Central Scheme of UCTA 1977 -- (2).Excluding Liability for Breach of the Statutory Implied Terms in Non-Consumer Contracts for the Sale of Goods and Analogous Contracts -- (3).Cases on UCTA 1977 -- (a).What Counts as an Exclusion of Liability, or as Equivalent to such an Exclusion, so as to Fall within the Act? -- Phillips Products Ltd v Hyland -- Thompson v T Lohan (Plant Hire) Ltd -- Smith v Eric S Bush -- |
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Contents note continued: Liverpool City Council v Irwin -- Shell UK Ltd v Lostock Garage Ltd -- Scally v Southern Health and Social Services Board -- (2).Terms Implied, or Treated as Included, by Statute -- (a).Non-Consumer Contracts for the Sale of Goods -- Sale of Goods Act 1979, sections 12--15 -- (b).Consumer Contracts for the Sale of Goods -- Consumer Rights Act 2015, sections 3, 9--18 -- (c).Non-Consumer Contracts for Services -- Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982, sections 12--15 -- (d).Consumer Contracts for Services -- Consumer Rights Act 2015, sections 48--52 -- Additional Reading -- 5.Interpreting The Terms -- 1.The Modern Approach to Construction -- Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society -- Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd -- Arnold v Britton -- 2.Construction of Exemption Clauses -- (1).Excluding or Limiting Liability for Negligence -- Alderslade v Hendon Laundry Ltd -- Canada Steamship Lines Ltd v R -- |
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Contents note continued: Progress Bulk Carriers Ltd v Tube City IMS LLC -- Additional Reading -- 15.Undue Influence And Exploitation Of Weakness -- 1.Undue Influence -- Allcard v Skinner -- Barclays Bank plc v O'Brien -- Cheese v Thomas -- Credit Lyonnais Nederland NV v Burch -- Royal Bank of Scotland plc v Etridge (No 2) -- R v Attorney General for England and Wales -- 2.Exploitation of Weakness -- (1).Exploitation of Mental Weakness -- Earl of Aylesford v Morris -- Fry v Lane -- Cresswell v Potter -- Boustany v Pigott -- Portman Building Society v Dusangh -- (2).Exploitation of the Claimant's Circumstantial Weakness -- The Medina -- Alec Lobb Garages Ltd v Total Oil (GB) Ltd -- (3).Rejection of a Principle of ̀Inequality of Bargaining Power' -- Lloyds Bank Ltd v Bundy -- National Westminster Bank v Morgan -- Additional Reading |
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Contents note continued: Stewart Gill Ltd v Horatio Myer & Co Ltd -- Tudor Grange Holdings Ltd v Citibank NA -- (b).Does the Clause Pass, or Fail, the Reasonableness Test? -- George Mitchell (Chesterhall) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd -- Phillips Products Ltd v Hyland -- Stewart Gill Lid v Horatio Myer & Co Ltd -- St Albans City and District Council v International Computers Ltd -- Watford Electronics Ltd v Sanderson CFL Ltd -- 2.The Consumer Rights Act 2015 (Part 2 Etc) -- Consumer Rights Act 2015, sections 2, 3, 31, 48, 57, Part 2, Schedules 2 and 3 -- (1).Overview of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 Part 2 on Unfair Terms -- (2).Overview of the Provisions in the Consumer Rights Act 2015 that Automatically Invalidate Certain Exemption Clauses -- (3).Case-law on Unfair Terms -- Director General of Fair Trading v First National Bank Plc -- ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis -- (4).A Note on Good Faith -- Additional Reading -- pt. THREE REMEDIES FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT -- 7.Termination -- |
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Contents note continued: Wellesley Partners LLP v Withers LLP -- (b).Intervening Cause -- Quinn v Burch Bros (Builders) Ltd -- Galoo Ltd v Bright Grahame Murray -- (c).The Duty to Mitigate and Mitigation -- British Westinghouse Electric v Underground Electric Railways Co of London Ltd -- (d).Contributory Negligence -- Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945 Sections 1 (I) and 4 -- Forsikringsaktieselskapet Vesta v Butcher -- Barclays Bank Plc v Fairclough Building Ltd -- (e).Mental Distress -- Addis v Gramophone Co Ltd -- Jarvis v Swan's Tours Ltd -- Watts v Morrow -- Farley v Skinner -- (f).Loss of Reputation -- Mahmud v Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA -- 2.Restitutionary Damages/An Account of Profits -- Attorney General v Blake -- Experience Hendrix LLC v PPX Enterprises Inc -- 3.Agreed/Liquidated Damages and Penalties -- Cavendish Square Holding BV v Makdessi, ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis -- Additional Reading -- 9.Direct Enforcement -- |
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Contents note continued: (a).Pre-existing Duty Imposed by the General Law (ie a Non-contractual Duty) -- Collins v Godefroy -- Glasbrook Brothers Ltd v Glamorgan County Council -- Ward v Byham -- Williams v Williams -- (b).Pre-existing Duty under a Contract with a Third Party -- Shadwell v Shadwell -- Scotson v Pegg -- Pao On v Lau Yiu Long -- (c).Pre-existing Duty under a Contract with the Promisor -- Stilk v Myrick -- Williams v Roffey Bros & Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd -- Foakes v Beer -- Re Selectmove Ltd -- 2.Promissory Estoppel -- (1).The Emergence of Promissory Estoppel -- Hughes v Metropolitan Rly Co -- Central London Property Trust Ltd v High Trees House Ltd -- Collier v P & MJ Wright (Holdings) Ltd -- (2).Promissory Estoppel Not a Cause of Action -- Combe v Combe -- Crabb v Arun District Council -- Amalgamated Investment & Property Co Ltd v Texas Commerce International Bank Ltd -- Waltons Stores (Interstate) Ltd v Maher -- |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE THE FORMATION OF A CONTRACT -- 1.Offer And Acceptance -- 1.Introduction -- (1).What is a Contract? -- (2).Offer and Acceptance -- 2.Offers and Invitations to Treat -- (1).Two General Illustrative Cases -- Harvey v Facey -- Gibson v Manchester City Council -- (2).Display of Goods for Sale -- Fisher v Bell -- Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots Cash Chemists (Southern) Ltd -- (3).Advertisements -- Partridge v Crittenden -- Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company -- (4).Auction Sales -- Barry v Davies -- (5).Tenders -- Spencer v Harding -- Harvela Investments Ltd v Royal Trust Company of Canada (CI) Ltd -- Blackpool and Fylde Aeroclub Ltd v Blackpool Borough Council -- 3.Acceptance -- (1).Acceptance by Conduct -- Brogden v Metropolitan Railway Co -- (2).̀Battle of the Forms' -- Butler Machine Tool Co Ltd v Ex-Cell-O Corporation (England) Ltd -- (3).Communication of Acceptance -- |
| Summary |
This casebook offers undergraduate law students the ideal way to discover and understand contract law through reading highlights from leading cases. Designed to be used alongside a contract law textbook, it covers the entire undergraduate contract law course in a series of clearly presented chapters |
| Notes |
"Table of cases": pages xxv-xlix |
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"Table of legislation": pages li-lix |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Contracts -- England -- Cases.
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Contracts -- England.
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Contracts -- Wales -- Cases.
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Contracts -- Wales.
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| LC no. |
2016028879 |
| ISBN |
150990770X |
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9781509907700 |
