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| adam_text | Contents
Preface
xiii
Table of cases
xv
Table of legislation
xxxi
1
Introduction
1
1.1
Introduction
1
1.2
The scope of the law of contract
1
1.3
The basis of the law of contract
2
1.4
Contract, tort and restitution
4
1.5
Contract and empirical work
5
1.6
A European contract law?
6
1.7
An international contract law?
9
1.8
The role of national contract law in a global economy
10
1.9
Contract law and human rights
11
3P The formation and scope of a contract
15
2
Agreement: clearing the ground
17
2.1
Who decides that an agreement has been reached?
17
2.2
A residual role for a subjective approach?
19
2.3
The objective test
21
2.4
Has agreement been reached?
22
Summary
25
Exercises
25
3
Offer and acceptance
27
3.1
Offer and invitation to treat
27
3.2
Display of goods for sale
29
3.3
Advertisements
31
3.4
Auction sales
31
3.5
Tenders
32
3.6
Time-tables and vending machines
34
3.7
Acceptance
35
3.8
Communication of the acceptance
35
3.9
Acceptance in ignorance of the offer
36
3.10
Prescribed method of acceptance
37
3.11
Acceptance by silence
37
3.12
Exceptions to the rule requiring communication of acceptance
38
3.13
Acceptance in unilateral contracts
41
3.14
Termination of the offer
42
3.15
The limits of offer and acceptance
43
Summary
44
Exercises
45
Contents
4
Certainty and agreement mistakes
47
4.1
Certainty
47
4.2
Vagueness
51
4.3
Incompleteness
52
4.4
A general rule?
53
4.5
A restitutionary approach?
53
4.6
Mistake negativing consent
54
Summary
62
Exercises
62
5
Consideration and form
63
5.1
Requirements of form
63
5.2
Consideration defined
69
5.3
The many functions of consideration
70
5.4
Consideration and motive
71
5.5
The scope of the doctrine
72
5.6
Consideration must be sufficient but it need not be adequate
72
5.7
Trivial acts
72
5.8
Intangible returns
73
5.9
Compromise and forbearance to sue
75
5.10
Performance of a duty imposed by law
75
5.11
Performance of a contractual duty owed to the promisor
77
5.12
Practical benefit
79
5.13
Consideration and duress
80
5.14
Alternative analyses
82
5.15
Part payment of a debt
84
5.16
Performance of a duty imposed by contract with a third party
85
5.17
Conceptions of value
86
5.18
Past consideration
87
5.19
Consideration must move from the promisee
88
5.20
Reliance upon non-bargain promises
89
5.21
The role of consideration
91
5.22
Estoppel
92
5.23
Estoppel by representation
94
5.24
Waiver and variation
94
5.25
Promissory estoppel
95
5.26
Estoppel by convention
98
5.27
Proprietary estoppel
98
5.28
The relationship between estoppel and consideration
101
5.29
Conclusion: the future of consideration
104
Summary
106
Exercises
107
6
Intention to create legal relations
109
6.1
Introduction
109
6.2
Balfour
v
Balfour
109
6.3
Rebutting the presumption
110
6.4
Domestic and social agreements
110
6.5
Commercial agreements
112
Summary
113
Exercises
113
Contents
7
Third party rights
115
7.1
Introduction
115
7.2
Privity in operation
116
7.3
Privity and consideration
118
7.4
Criticisms of the doctrine of privity
120
7.5
The Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act
1999 120
7.6
The intention test
121
7.7
No consideration required
125
7.8
The remedies available to the third party
125
7.9
Variation and cancellation
126
7.10
The defences available to the promisor
127
7.11
Avoiding double liability
128
7.12
Exceptions to the new third party right of action
129
7.13
Preserving existing exceptions
129
7.14
Rights of the promisee
130
7.15
Collateral contracts
134
7.16
Agency
135
7.17
The trust concept
136
7.18
The role of the law of tort
138
7.19
Assignment
140
7.20
Negotiable instruments
140
7.21
Statutory exceptions
140
7.22
A further common law exception?
141
7.23
Interference with contractual rights
141
7.24
Conclusion
143
Summary
144
Exercises
145
Ш
The content of a contract
147
8
What
is a term?
149
8.1
What is a term?
149
8.2
Verification
150
8.3
Importance
150
8.4
Special knowledge
150
8.5
The consequences of the distinction between a term and a mere
representation
151
8.6
Can a representation be incorporated into a contract as a term?
151
Summary
152
Exercises
152
9
The sources of contractual terms
153
9.1
Introduction
153
9.2
The
parol
evidence rule
153
9.3
Bound by your signature?
155
9.4
Incorporation of written terms
158
9.5
Incorporation by a course of dealing
161
9.6
Interpretation
162
9.7
Rectification
168
9.8
Imolied terms
170
Contents
Summary
- 174
Exercises
175
10
The classification of contractual terms
177
10.1
The classification of terms
177
10.2
What is a condition ?
177
10.3
Distinguishing between a condition and a warranty
178
10.4
The need for change?
181
10.5
Innominate terms
183
Summary
185
Exercises
186
11
Exclusion clauses
187
11.1
Exclusion clauses: defence or definition?
187
11.2
The functions of exclusion clauses
188
11.3
An outline of the law
189
11.4
Incorporation
189
11.5
Construction of exclusion clauses
189
11.6
Negligence liability
191
11.7
Fundamental breach
194
11.8
Other common law controls upon exclusion clauses
196
11.9
The Unfair Contract Terms Act
1977 196
11.10
Negligence liability
196
11.11
Liability for breach of contract
200
11.12
Indemnity clauses
204
11.13
Attempts at evasion
205
11.14
The reasonableness test
205
11.15
Excepted contracts
209
11.16
Conclusion
210
Summary
212
Exercises
212
HP Policing the contract
213
12
A duty to disclose material facts?
215
12.1
Introduction
215
12.2
Snatching at a bargain
216
12.3
Representation by conduct
216
12.4
Representation falsified by later events
217
12.5
Statement literally true but misleading
217
12.6
Contracts uberrimae
f
idei
218
12.7
Fiduciary relationships
218
12.8
A duty of disclosure in tort?
218
12.9
The role of the Sale of Goods Act
1979 218
12.10
Conclusion
219
Summary
224
Exercises
224
13
Misrepresentation
225
13.1
Introduction
225
13.2
What is a misrepresentation?
226
Contents
13.3
A statement of existing fact or law
226
13.4
Addressed to the party misled
228
13.5
Inducement
228
13.6
The types of misrepresentation
230
13.7
Remedies
235
13.8
Rescission
236
13.9
Damages
238
13.10
Excluding liability for misrepresentation
241
Summary
242
Exercises
243
14
Common mistake and frustration
245
14.1
Introduction
245
14.2
Common mistake
246
14.3
Mistake as to the existence of the subject-matter of the contract
248
14.4
Mistake as to identity of the subject-matter
250
14.5
Mistake as to the possibility of performing the contract
250
14.6
Mistake as to quality
250
14.7
Mistake in equity
253
14.8
Frustration
255
14.9
Frustration, force
majeure
and hardship
255
14.10
Frustration: a sterile doctrine?
258
14.11
Impossibility
258
14.12
Frustration of purpose
259
14.13
Illegality
260
14.14
Express provision
260
14.15
Foreseen and forseeable events
261
14.16
Self-Induced frustration
262
14.17
The effects of frustration
264
14.18
Conclusion
267
Summary
268
Exercises
269
15
Illegality
271
15.1
Introduction
271
15.2
Some difficulties of classification
272
15.3
Illegality In performance
272
15.4
Statutory illegality
274
15.5
Gaming and wagering contracts
274
15.6
Illegality at common law
275
15.7
Contracts contrary to good morals
275
15.8
Contracts prejudicial to family life
276
15.9
Contracts to
commit a
crime or a civil wrong
277
15.10
Contracts prejudicial to the administration of justice
277
15.11
Contracts prejudicial to public relations
278
15.12
Contracts in restraint of trade
278
15.13
Contracts of employment
279
15.14
Contracts for the sale of a business
280
15.15
Restrictive trading and analogous agreements
280
15.16
The scope of public policy
281
15.17
The effects of illegality
281
Contents
15.18
The recovery of money or property
282
15.19
Severance
286
Summary
286
Exercises
287
16
Capacity
289
16.1
Introduction
289
16.2
Minors
289
16.3
Mental incapacity and drunkenness
291
16.4
Companies
293
Summary
293
Exercises
294
17
Duress, undue influence and inequality of bargaining power
295
17.1
Introduction
295
17.2
Common law duress
295
17.3
Undue influence
301
17.4
Inequality of bargaining power
305
17.5
The role of Parliament
307
17.6
The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations
1999 307
17.7
A general doctrine of unconscionability?
315
Summary
316
Exercises
317
19
Performance, discharge and remedies for
breach of contract
319
18
Performance and discharge of the contract
321
18.1
Performance
321
18.2
Discharge of the contract
321
18.3
Discharge by performance
322
18.4
Discharge by agreement
322
18.5
Discharge by operation of law
322
Summary
323
Exercises
323
19
Breach of contract
325
19.1
Introduction: breach defined
325
19.2
When does breach occur?
325
19.3
The consequences of breach
326
19.4
Damages
327
19.5
Enforcement by the party in breach
327
19.6
The right to terminate performance of the contract
327
19.7
The prospective nature of breach
328
19.8
The right of election
329
19.9
Anticipatory breach
331
Summary
334
Exercises
335
20
Damages for breach of contract
337
20.1
Introduction
337
20.2
Compensation and the different interests
337
Contents
ЧИЙ
20.3
The expectation interest
339
20.4
The restitution interest
343
20.5
Failure of consideration and enrichment by subtraction
343
20.6
Enrichment by wrongdoing
345
20.7
Reliance interest
350
20.8
The date of assessment
352
20.9
The commitment to the protection of the expectation interest
352
20.10
Mitigation
352
20.11
Remoteness
354
20.12
Causation
359
20.13
Damages for pain and suffering and the consumer surplus
360
20.14
Conclusion
363
Summary
363
Exercises
364
21
Obtaining an adequate remedy
365
21.1
Introduction
365
21.2
The entire obligations (or entire contracts ) rule
365
21.3
The creation of conditions
367
21.4
A claim in debt
367
21.5
Liquidated damages
368
21.6
Evading the penalty clause rule
371
21.7
Deposits and part payments
373
21.8
Liquidated damages, penalty clauses and forfeitures: an assessment
376
21.9
Specific performance
378
21.10
Injunctions
381
21.11
Damages in lieu of specific performance
382
21.12
Conclusion
382
Summary
383
Exercises
383
Bibliography
385
Index
393
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