Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Teeven, Kevin M.

Title Promises on prior obligations at common law / Kevin M. Teeven
Published Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xi, 221 pages)
Series Contributions in legal studies, 0147-1074 ; no. 85
Contributions in legal studies ; no. 85. 0147-1074
Contents ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Promises on Prior Obligations at Common Law""; ""Introduction: Prior Obligations""; ""Preexisting Duty Rule and Its Reform""; ""Emergence of Preexisting Duty Rule""; ""Judicial Reform of Preexisting Duty Rule""; ""Legislative Reform of Preexisting Duty Rule""; ""Restatement Second Position""; ""Remaining Vitality of Outdated Rule""; ""Past Consideration Rule and Moral Obligation Principle""; ""Origins of Past Consideration Rule and of Moral Obligation Principle""; ""Initial Support for Mansfield�s Ideas Squelched""
""Case Precedent for Mansfield�s Notion of Liability without Prior Legal Obligation""""American Promissory Restitution Supported by Consideration""; ""American Promissory Restitution Supported by Moral Obligation Alone""; ""Notes""; ""Tables of Cases""; ""Table of Statutes""; ""Subject Index""
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Consideration (Law) -- United States
Promise (Law) -- United States
Obligations (Law) -- United States
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Consideration (Law)
Obligations (Law)
Promise (Law)
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781567509496
1567509495