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Title Cases and materials on contracts / edited by J.B. Milner
Published [Toronto] : University of Toronto Press, [1963]
©1963

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 897 pages)
Series Heritage
Heritage.
Contents Cover; INTRODUCTION; TABLE OF CASES; CHAPTER 1. REMEDIES FOR BREACH OF PROMISE; 1. Damages and Restitution; 2. Penalty Clauses: A Drafting Problem; 3. Specific Performance and Injunctions; 4. When the Remedies may be Sought; 5. Protection from Interference by Strangers; CHAPTER 2. THE KINDS OF PROMISES LEGALLY ENFORCED; 1. Form; 2. Consideration: The Bargain Theory; 3. Mutual Promises; 4. Past Consideration; 5. Performance of Duty; 6. Changing the Duty; 7. Alternatives to Consideration; 8. Intention; 9. Illegal or Immoral Contracts; 10. The Statute of Frauds; CHAPTER 3. MAKING THE PROMISE
1. Preliminary Negotiations 2. The Power of Acceptance; 3. Unilateral Contracts; 4. Contracts Negotiated by Correspondence; 5. Ambiguity of Terms; 6. Mistake in the Identity of Parties; CHAPTER 4. THIRD PARTY BENEFICIARIES; CHAPTER 5. ASSIGNMENT; 1. Formalities and Effects of Assignment; 2. Personal Contracts and Subcontracting; 3. Restrictions on Assignment; CHAPTER 6. WRITTEN CONTRACTS AND STANDARD FORMS; 1. The "Ticket Cases"; 2. Non Est Factum; 3. The Parol Evidence Rule; CHAPTER 7. ABSOLUTE AND CONDITIONAL PROMISES; 1. Effect of Conditions; 2. Effect of Representations
3. Building Contracts 4. Time Stipulations and Instalment Contracts; 5. Employment Contracts; CHAPTER 8. UNEXPECTED CHANGES IN CIRCUMSTANCES; 1. Relaxation of the Rule of Absolute Promises; 2. Does Frustration "Put an End to" the Contract?; 3. Restitution: Quantum Meruit, Quasi Contract and Unjust Enrichment; CHAPTER 9. ANTICIPATORY REPUDIATION; CHAPTER 10. INFANTS' CONTRACTS; INDEX
Summary This collection consists of extensively reproduced reports of law suits, some less extensive excerpts, and some excerpts that can best be described as notes of reports. The word ""materials"" covers these lesser excerpts, but it also covers a variety of other "legal" things
Notes Includes index
Online resource (HeinOnline, December 14, 2022)
Subject Contracts -- Canada -- Cases
Contracts -- Great Britain -- Cases
LAW -- Civil Procedure.
LAW -- Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
LAW -- General.
Contracts
Canada
Great Britain
Genre/Form decisions (judicial records)
Casebooks (Law)
Court decisions and opinions
Trials, litigation, etc.
Court decisions and opinions.
Casebooks (Law)
Recueils de jurisprudence et d'opinions.
Recueils de cas.
Form Electronic book
Author Milner, J. B. (James Bryce), 1918-1969, editor.
ISBN 9781487578121
1487578121