""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Duty Rule""; ""Legislative Reform of Preexisting Duty Rule""; ""Restatement Second Position""; ""Remaining Vitality of Outdated Rule""; ""Past Consideration Rule and Moral Obligation Principle""; ""Origins of Past Consideration Rule and of Moral Obligation Principle""; ""Initial Support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""