Contract Law in New Zealand:
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2024
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| 505 | 8 | |a Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- The Author -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- General Introduction -- Chapter 1. The General Background of the Country -- 1. GEOGRAPHY -- 2. CULTURAL COMPOSITION -- 3. OUTLINE OF CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL HISTORY OF NEW ZEALAND -- Chapter 2. Legal Family -- Chapter 3. Legislative Supremacy -- Chapter 4. Position of the Judiciary -- 1. THE JUDICIARY -- 2. THE MODERN COURT SYSTEM -- I. The Supreme Court -- II. The Court of Appeal -- III. The High Court -- IV. The District Court -- V. Disputes Tribunals -- VI. Other Courts and Tribunals -- Chapter 5. Public and Private Law -- Chapter 6. Civil and Commercial Law -- Introduction to the Law of Contract -- Chapter 1. Definition of Contract -- Chapter 2. Historical Development of Contract Law in New Zealand -- Chapter 3. Classification of Contracts -- 1. DEEDS -- 2. SIMPLE CONTRACTS -- 3. A LAW OF CONTRACT OR CONTRACTS? -- Chapter 4. Contract and Tort -- Chapter 5. Contract and Restitution -- Chapter 6. Contract and the Law of Property -- Chapter 7. Contract and Trust -- Chapter 8. Good Faith and Fair Dealing -- Chapter 9. Style of Drafting -- Chapter 10. Sources of the Law of Contracts -- Part I. General Principles of the Law of Contract -- Chapter 1. Formation of Contract -- 1. AGREEMENT -- I. Offer and Acceptance -- A. General -- 1. Bilateral and Unilateral Contracts Contrasted -- 2. Objective Test for Establishing Contractual Intent -- 3. 'Constructed' or Implied Contracts -- 4. Alternative Objective View of Contract Formation -- B. Definition of Offer -- 1. Offers Distinguished from Invitations to Treat -- 2. Examples -- C. Offers Capable of Giving Rise to More Than One Contract -- 1. Process Contracts -- 2. Collateral Contracts -- 3. Auctions -- 4. Options and Rights of Pre-emption -- D. Special Cases of Offers | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 1. Standing Offers -- 2. Sale of an Interest in Land -- 3. Ticket Cases -- E. Offers in Unilateral Contracts -- F. When Offer Is Effective -- G. Termination of Offer -- 1. Rejection of Offer -- 2. Revocation of Offer of Bilateral Contract -- 3. Revocation of Unilateral Offers -- 4. Termination of Offer by Effluxion of Time, Change of Circumstances, or Failure of a Condition to Which Offer Was Subject -- 5. Effect of Death or Supervening Incapacity of Offeror or Offeree -- H. Acceptance Generally -- 1. Acceptance in Retrospective Agreements -- 2. Acceptance in Bilateral and Unilateral Contracts Compared -- 3. Acceptance in Unilateral Contracts -- 4. Acceptance in Bilateral Contracts -- 5. Acceptance Where Means of Acceptance Stipulated -- I. Communication of Acceptance -- 1. General -- 2. Acceptances by Post and the 'Posting Rules' -- 3. Legislative Regime for Electronic Transactions -- J. Communications Containing or Imposing Fresh Terms or Conditions -- 1. Counter-Offers and 'Battle of the Forms' -- 2. Counter-Offers Generally -- K. Revocation of Acceptance -- II. Incomplete, Indefinite and Conditional Agreements -- A. Uncertainty -- 1. Matters Left for Future Decision -- 2. Future Agreements -- 3. Contractual Machinery and Its Use -- 4. Uncertainty as to Meaning of Terms of Agreement -- B. Conditional Contracts -- 1. Conditional Contracts Generally -- 2. Conditional or Provisional Agreements -- 3. Waiver of Conditions in Conditional Contracts -- 4. Obligation to Seek Fulfilment of Conditions -- III. Intention to Create Legal Relations -- A. General -- B. Business Transactions -- 1. General -- 2. Letters of Comfort -- 3. Agreements Between Trade Unions and Employers Outside the Industrial Law Regime -- C. Domestic Agreements -- D. Agreements Between Private Individuals and the State -- IV. The Doctrine of Consideration -- A. Definition | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 1. Introduction -- 2. Executory and Executed Consideration -- 3. Past Consideration Is No Consideration -- 4. Consideration Must Move from the Promisee -- 5. Adequacy of Consideration -- 6. Forbearance and Compromise -- B. Performance of Existing Duties -- 1. Performance of Existing Duty under the Law -- 2. Performance of an Existing Contract with a Third Person -- 3. Performance of an Existing Contract with the Promisor -- 4. Part Payment of a Debt -- C. Promissory Estoppel -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Traditional View: 'A Shield Not a Sword' -- 3. Modern Developments -- 2. FORMAL AND EVIDENTIAL REQUIREMENTS -- I. General -- II. Requirements as to Form in Particular Cases -- III. Property Law Act 2007 -- A. The Requirement of a Written Contract or Written Record of the Terms of the Contract -- B. The Requirement of a Signature -- C. Equitable Doctrine of Part Performance -- D. Contracts of Guarantee -- IV. Evidential Requirements -- A. General -- B. The 'Parol Evidence' Rule -- C. Notaries Public -- D. Burden of Proof -- 3. LIABILITY AND NEGOTIATIONS -- I. Pre-contractual Liability -- II. Breakdown of Negotiations -- III. Misrepresentation -- A. Contract Legislation -- 1. Definition of Misrepresentation -- 2. Inducement -- 3. Mental Element -- 4. Misrepresentation Made by or on Behalf of Another Party to the Contract -- 5. Liability in Damages -- 6. Cancellation -- B. The Fair Trading Act 1986 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Features of the Fair Trading Act -- a. In Trade -- b. Misleading or Deceptive or Likely to Mislead or Deceive -- c. Mental Element -- 3. Remedies -- a. Damages -- b. Avoidance and Variation -- c. Contracting Out -- Chapter 2. Conditions of Substantive Validity -- 1. CAPACITY OF PARTIES -- I. Minors' Contracts -- A. Minors' Contracts Legislation -- B. Tortious Liability of Minors -- II. Trading Corporations | |
| 505 | 8 | |a III. Mentally Disordered Persons -- A. Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act 1988 -- B. Common Law and Equity -- IV. Drunken Persons -- 2. DEFECTS OF CONSENT -- I. Mistake -- A. Scheme of Contractual Mistakes Provisions in the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017 -- B. Grounds for Relief -- 1. Meaning of 'Mistake' under the Act -- 2. Classes of Mistake Eligible for Relief -- 3. Requirement of Substantial Inequality of Exchange -- 4. Provisions Allocating Risk of Mistake -- C. Discretion to Grant Relief -- D. Remedies Preserved by the Contractual Mistakes Legislation -- 1. Rectification -- 2. Non Est Factum -- II. Misrepresentation -- III. Improper Pressure -- A. Introduction -- B. Economic Duress -- C. Undue Influence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Classes of Undue Influence -- 3. Manifest Disadvantage -- 4. Royal Bank of Scotland Plc Etridge (No. 2) -- 5. Proof of Undue Influence -- 6. Effect of Undue Influence -- 7. Suretyship Transactions -- D. Unconscionable Dealings -- E. Statutory Unconscionable Conduct -- IV. Illegality -- A. General -- B. Definition of an Illegal Contract -- C. Contracts Which Are Void Rather than Illegal -- 1. Contracts Ousting the Jurisdiction of the Courts -- 2. Contracts Affecting the Freedom or Security of Marriage -- D. Illegality at Common Law -- 1. Contracts to Commit a Criminal Offence, a Fraud or a Tort -- 2. Contracts Interfering with the Course of Justice -- 3. Contracts to Defraud the Revenue -- 4. Contracts Which Are Prejudicial to Good Government -- 5. Contracts Promoting Sexual Immorality -- E. Contracts in Breach of a Statute and the Illegality Provisions of the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017 -- F. Consequences of Illegality of a Contract -- G. Relief under the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017 -- 1. Power to Grant Relief Where Contract Is Illegal -- 2. Jurisdiction to Grant Discretionary Relief | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 3. Factors Relevant to the Exercise of the Discretion to Grant Relief -- H. Contracts in Restraint of Trade -- 1. General -- 2. Reasonable Restraints -- 3. Impact of Illegal Contracts Legislation -- Chapter 3. The Contents of a Contract -- 1. THE DIFFERENT CLAUSES -- I. Ascertaining of Express Terms -- A. The Parol Evidence Rule -- B. Collateral Contracts -- C. Representations and Terms -- II. Implied Terms -- A. Custom -- B. Statute -- C. The Courts -- 1. Implied by Law -- 2. Implied in Fact -- III. Exclusion Clauses -- A. Introduction -- B. Incorporation into the Contract -- C. Interpretation -- D. Fundamental Breach of Contract -- E. Statutory Control -- 1. Disputes Tribunal Act 1988 -- 2. Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017, Section 50 -- 3. Fair Trading Act 1986 -- 4. Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts -- 5. Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 -- IV. Penalty Clauses -- V. Arbitration Clauses -- 2. INTERPRETATION -- I. The Rules of Interpretation -- A. Introduction -- B. The Matrix of Fact -- C. Pre-contract Negotiations, Subsequent Conduct -- D. Business Common Sense -- E. Evidential Issues -- Chapter 4. Privity of Contract -- 1. THE DOCTRINE OF PRIVITY OF CONTRACT -- I. The Imposition of Contractual Liabilities upon Third Parties -- II. The Acquisition of Contractual Rights by Third Parties -- A. Introduction -- B. Remedies of the Promisee -- C. Trusts of Contractual Rights -- D. Exclusion Clauses and Third Parties -- E. Privity Legislation -- 1. Right of Enforcement to Third Parties -- 2. Variation or Discharge of the Contract -- 3. Defences -- 2. THE TRANSFER OF CONTRACTUAL RIGHTS -- I. Voluntary Assignment -- A. Introduction -- B. Assignment under the Property Law Act 1952 -- C. Assignment in Equity -- D. Consideration -- E. Notice -- F. Assignment Subject to Equities -- G. Assignment under the Property Law Act 2007 | |
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| contents | Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- The Author -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- General Introduction -- Chapter 1. The General Background of the Country -- 1. GEOGRAPHY -- 2. CULTURAL COMPOSITION -- 3. OUTLINE OF CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL HISTORY OF NEW ZEALAND -- Chapter 2. Legal Family -- Chapter 3. Legislative Supremacy -- Chapter 4. Position of the Judiciary -- 1. THE JUDICIARY -- 2. THE MODERN COURT SYSTEM -- I. The Supreme Court -- II. The Court of Appeal -- III. The High Court -- IV. The District Court -- V. Disputes Tribunals -- VI. Other Courts and Tribunals -- Chapter 5. Public and Private Law -- Chapter 6. Civil and Commercial Law -- Introduction to the Law of Contract -- Chapter 1. Definition of Contract -- Chapter 2. Historical Development of Contract Law in New Zealand -- Chapter 3. Classification of Contracts -- 1. DEEDS -- 2. SIMPLE CONTRACTS -- 3. A LAW OF CONTRACT OR CONTRACTS? -- Chapter 4. Contract and Tort -- Chapter 5. Contract and Restitution -- Chapter 6. Contract and the Law of Property -- Chapter 7. Contract and Trust -- Chapter 8. Good Faith and Fair Dealing -- Chapter 9. Style of Drafting -- Chapter 10. Sources of the Law of Contracts -- Part I. General Principles of the Law of Contract -- Chapter 1. Formation of Contract -- 1. AGREEMENT -- I. Offer and Acceptance -- A. General -- 1. Bilateral and Unilateral Contracts Contrasted -- 2. Objective Test for Establishing Contractual Intent -- 3. 'Constructed' or Implied Contracts -- 4. Alternative Objective View of Contract Formation -- B. Definition of Offer -- 1. Offers Distinguished from Invitations to Treat -- 2. Examples -- C. Offers Capable of Giving Rise to More Than One Contract -- 1. Process Contracts -- 2. Collateral Contracts -- 3. Auctions -- 4. Options and Rights of Pre-emption -- D. Special Cases of Offers 1. Standing Offers -- 2. Sale of an Interest in Land -- 3. Ticket Cases -- E. Offers in Unilateral Contracts -- F. When Offer Is Effective -- G. Termination of Offer -- 1. Rejection of Offer -- 2. Revocation of Offer of Bilateral Contract -- 3. Revocation of Unilateral Offers -- 4. Termination of Offer by Effluxion of Time, Change of Circumstances, or Failure of a Condition to Which Offer Was Subject -- 5. Effect of Death or Supervening Incapacity of Offeror or Offeree -- H. Acceptance Generally -- 1. Acceptance in Retrospective Agreements -- 2. Acceptance in Bilateral and Unilateral Contracts Compared -- 3. Acceptance in Unilateral Contracts -- 4. Acceptance in Bilateral Contracts -- 5. Acceptance Where Means of Acceptance Stipulated -- I. Communication of Acceptance -- 1. General -- 2. Acceptances by Post and the 'Posting Rules' -- 3. Legislative Regime for Electronic Transactions -- J. Communications Containing or Imposing Fresh Terms or Conditions -- 1. Counter-Offers and 'Battle of the Forms' -- 2. Counter-Offers Generally -- K. Revocation of Acceptance -- II. Incomplete, Indefinite and Conditional Agreements -- A. Uncertainty -- 1. Matters Left for Future Decision -- 2. Future Agreements -- 3. Contractual Machinery and Its Use -- 4. Uncertainty as to Meaning of Terms of Agreement -- B. Conditional Contracts -- 1. Conditional Contracts Generally -- 2. Conditional or Provisional Agreements -- 3. Waiver of Conditions in Conditional Contracts -- 4. Obligation to Seek Fulfilment of Conditions -- III. Intention to Create Legal Relations -- A. General -- B. Business Transactions -- 1. General -- 2. Letters of Comfort -- 3. Agreements Between Trade Unions and Employers Outside the Industrial Law Regime -- C. Domestic Agreements -- D. Agreements Between Private Individuals and the State -- IV. The Doctrine of Consideration -- A. Definition 1. Introduction -- 2. Executory and Executed Consideration -- 3. Past Consideration Is No Consideration -- 4. Consideration Must Move from the Promisee -- 5. Adequacy of Consideration -- 6. Forbearance and Compromise -- B. Performance of Existing Duties -- 1. Performance of Existing Duty under the Law -- 2. Performance of an Existing Contract with a Third Person -- 3. Performance of an Existing Contract with the Promisor -- 4. Part Payment of a Debt -- C. Promissory Estoppel -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Traditional View: 'A Shield Not a Sword' -- 3. Modern Developments -- 2. FORMAL AND EVIDENTIAL REQUIREMENTS -- I. General -- II. Requirements as to Form in Particular Cases -- III. Property Law Act 2007 -- A. The Requirement of a Written Contract or Written Record of the Terms of the Contract -- B. The Requirement of a Signature -- C. Equitable Doctrine of Part Performance -- D. Contracts of Guarantee -- IV. Evidential Requirements -- A. General -- B. The 'Parol Evidence' Rule -- C. Notaries Public -- D. Burden of Proof -- 3. LIABILITY AND NEGOTIATIONS -- I. Pre-contractual Liability -- II. Breakdown of Negotiations -- III. Misrepresentation -- A. Contract Legislation -- 1. Definition of Misrepresentation -- 2. Inducement -- 3. Mental Element -- 4. Misrepresentation Made by or on Behalf of Another Party to the Contract -- 5. Liability in Damages -- 6. Cancellation -- B. The Fair Trading Act 1986 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Features of the Fair Trading Act -- a. In Trade -- b. Misleading or Deceptive or Likely to Mislead or Deceive -- c. Mental Element -- 3. Remedies -- a. Damages -- b. Avoidance and Variation -- c. Contracting Out -- Chapter 2. Conditions of Substantive Validity -- 1. CAPACITY OF PARTIES -- I. Minors' Contracts -- A. Minors' Contracts Legislation -- B. Tortious Liability of Minors -- II. Trading Corporations III. Mentally Disordered Persons -- A. Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act 1988 -- B. Common Law and Equity -- IV. Drunken Persons -- 2. DEFECTS OF CONSENT -- I. Mistake -- A. Scheme of Contractual Mistakes Provisions in the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017 -- B. Grounds for Relief -- 1. Meaning of 'Mistake' under the Act -- 2. Classes of Mistake Eligible for Relief -- 3. Requirement of Substantial Inequality of Exchange -- 4. Provisions Allocating Risk of Mistake -- C. Discretion to Grant Relief -- D. Remedies Preserved by the Contractual Mistakes Legislation -- 1. Rectification -- 2. Non Est Factum -- II. Misrepresentation -- III. Improper Pressure -- A. Introduction -- B. Economic Duress -- C. Undue Influence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Classes of Undue Influence -- 3. Manifest Disadvantage -- 4. Royal Bank of Scotland Plc Etridge (No. 2) -- 5. Proof of Undue Influence -- 6. Effect of Undue Influence -- 7. Suretyship Transactions -- D. Unconscionable Dealings -- E. Statutory Unconscionable Conduct -- IV. Illegality -- A. General -- B. Definition of an Illegal Contract -- C. Contracts Which Are Void Rather than Illegal -- 1. Contracts Ousting the Jurisdiction of the Courts -- 2. Contracts Affecting the Freedom or Security of Marriage -- D. Illegality at Common Law -- 1. Contracts to Commit a Criminal Offence, a Fraud or a Tort -- 2. Contracts Interfering with the Course of Justice -- 3. Contracts to Defraud the Revenue -- 4. Contracts Which Are Prejudicial to Good Government -- 5. Contracts Promoting Sexual Immorality -- E. Contracts in Breach of a Statute and the Illegality Provisions of the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017 -- F. Consequences of Illegality of a Contract -- G. Relief under the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017 -- 1. Power to Grant Relief Where Contract Is Illegal -- 2. Jurisdiction to Grant Discretionary Relief 3. Factors Relevant to the Exercise of the Discretion to Grant Relief -- H. Contracts in Restraint of Trade -- 1. General -- 2. Reasonable Restraints -- 3. Impact of Illegal Contracts Legislation -- Chapter 3. The Contents of a Contract -- 1. THE DIFFERENT CLAUSES -- I. Ascertaining of Express Terms -- A. The Parol Evidence Rule -- B. Collateral Contracts -- C. Representations and Terms -- II. Implied Terms -- A. Custom -- B. Statute -- C. The Courts -- 1. Implied by Law -- 2. Implied in Fact -- III. Exclusion Clauses -- A. Introduction -- B. Incorporation into the Contract -- C. Interpretation -- D. Fundamental Breach of Contract -- E. Statutory Control -- 1. Disputes Tribunal Act 1988 -- 2. Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017, Section 50 -- 3. Fair Trading Act 1986 -- 4. Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts -- 5. Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 -- IV. Penalty Clauses -- V. Arbitration Clauses -- 2. INTERPRETATION -- I. The Rules of Interpretation -- A. Introduction -- B. The Matrix of Fact -- C. Pre-contract Negotiations, Subsequent Conduct -- D. Business Common Sense -- E. Evidential Issues -- Chapter 4. Privity of Contract -- 1. THE DOCTRINE OF PRIVITY OF CONTRACT -- I. The Imposition of Contractual Liabilities upon Third Parties -- II. The Acquisition of Contractual Rights by Third Parties -- A. Introduction -- B. Remedies of the Promisee -- C. Trusts of Contractual Rights -- D. Exclusion Clauses and Third Parties -- E. Privity Legislation -- 1. Right of Enforcement to Third Parties -- 2. Variation or Discharge of the Contract -- 3. Defences -- 2. THE TRANSFER OF CONTRACTUAL RIGHTS -- I. Voluntary Assignment -- A. Introduction -- B. Assignment under the Property Law Act 1952 -- C. Assignment in Equity -- D. Consideration -- E. Notice -- F. Assignment Subject to Equities -- G. Assignment under the Property Law Act 2007 H. Limits on Assignability |
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| spelling | Todd, Stephen Verfasser aut Contract Law in New Zealand 5th ed Alphen aan den Rijn Wolters Kluwer Law International 2024 ©2024 1 Online-Ressource (338 Seiten) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- The Author -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- General Introduction -- Chapter 1. The General Background of the Country -- 1. GEOGRAPHY -- 2. CULTURAL COMPOSITION -- 3. OUTLINE OF CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL HISTORY OF NEW ZEALAND -- Chapter 2. Legal Family -- Chapter 3. Legislative Supremacy -- Chapter 4. Position of the Judiciary -- 1. THE JUDICIARY -- 2. THE MODERN COURT SYSTEM -- I. The Supreme Court -- II. The Court of Appeal -- III. The High Court -- IV. The District Court -- V. Disputes Tribunals -- VI. Other Courts and Tribunals -- Chapter 5. Public and Private Law -- Chapter 6. Civil and Commercial Law -- Introduction to the Law of Contract -- Chapter 1. Definition of Contract -- Chapter 2. Historical Development of Contract Law in New Zealand -- Chapter 3. Classification of Contracts -- 1. DEEDS -- 2. SIMPLE CONTRACTS -- 3. A LAW OF CONTRACT OR CONTRACTS? -- Chapter 4. Contract and Tort -- Chapter 5. Contract and Restitution -- Chapter 6. Contract and the Law of Property -- Chapter 7. Contract and Trust -- Chapter 8. Good Faith and Fair Dealing -- Chapter 9. Style of Drafting -- Chapter 10. Sources of the Law of Contracts -- Part I. General Principles of the Law of Contract -- Chapter 1. Formation of Contract -- 1. AGREEMENT -- I. Offer and Acceptance -- A. General -- 1. Bilateral and Unilateral Contracts Contrasted -- 2. Objective Test for Establishing Contractual Intent -- 3. 'Constructed' or Implied Contracts -- 4. Alternative Objective View of Contract Formation -- B. Definition of Offer -- 1. Offers Distinguished from Invitations to Treat -- 2. Examples -- C. Offers Capable of Giving Rise to More Than One Contract -- 1. Process Contracts -- 2. Collateral Contracts -- 3. Auctions -- 4. Options and Rights of Pre-emption -- D. Special Cases of Offers 1. Standing Offers -- 2. Sale of an Interest in Land -- 3. Ticket Cases -- E. Offers in Unilateral Contracts -- F. When Offer Is Effective -- G. Termination of Offer -- 1. Rejection of Offer -- 2. Revocation of Offer of Bilateral Contract -- 3. Revocation of Unilateral Offers -- 4. Termination of Offer by Effluxion of Time, Change of Circumstances, or Failure of a Condition to Which Offer Was Subject -- 5. Effect of Death or Supervening Incapacity of Offeror or Offeree -- H. Acceptance Generally -- 1. Acceptance in Retrospective Agreements -- 2. Acceptance in Bilateral and Unilateral Contracts Compared -- 3. Acceptance in Unilateral Contracts -- 4. Acceptance in Bilateral Contracts -- 5. Acceptance Where Means of Acceptance Stipulated -- I. Communication of Acceptance -- 1. General -- 2. Acceptances by Post and the 'Posting Rules' -- 3. Legislative Regime for Electronic Transactions -- J. Communications Containing or Imposing Fresh Terms or Conditions -- 1. Counter-Offers and 'Battle of the Forms' -- 2. Counter-Offers Generally -- K. Revocation of Acceptance -- II. Incomplete, Indefinite and Conditional Agreements -- A. Uncertainty -- 1. Matters Left for Future Decision -- 2. Future Agreements -- 3. Contractual Machinery and Its Use -- 4. Uncertainty as to Meaning of Terms of Agreement -- B. Conditional Contracts -- 1. Conditional Contracts Generally -- 2. Conditional or Provisional Agreements -- 3. Waiver of Conditions in Conditional Contracts -- 4. Obligation to Seek Fulfilment of Conditions -- III. Intention to Create Legal Relations -- A. General -- B. Business Transactions -- 1. General -- 2. Letters of Comfort -- 3. Agreements Between Trade Unions and Employers Outside the Industrial Law Regime -- C. Domestic Agreements -- D. Agreements Between Private Individuals and the State -- IV. The Doctrine of Consideration -- A. Definition 1. Introduction -- 2. Executory and Executed Consideration -- 3. Past Consideration Is No Consideration -- 4. Consideration Must Move from the Promisee -- 5. Adequacy of Consideration -- 6. Forbearance and Compromise -- B. Performance of Existing Duties -- 1. Performance of Existing Duty under the Law -- 2. Performance of an Existing Contract with a Third Person -- 3. Performance of an Existing Contract with the Promisor -- 4. Part Payment of a Debt -- C. Promissory Estoppel -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Traditional View: 'A Shield Not a Sword' -- 3. Modern Developments -- 2. FORMAL AND EVIDENTIAL REQUIREMENTS -- I. General -- II. Requirements as to Form in Particular Cases -- III. Property Law Act 2007 -- A. The Requirement of a Written Contract or Written Record of the Terms of the Contract -- B. The Requirement of a Signature -- C. Equitable Doctrine of Part Performance -- D. Contracts of Guarantee -- IV. Evidential Requirements -- A. General -- B. The 'Parol Evidence' Rule -- C. Notaries Public -- D. Burden of Proof -- 3. LIABILITY AND NEGOTIATIONS -- I. Pre-contractual Liability -- II. Breakdown of Negotiations -- III. Misrepresentation -- A. Contract Legislation -- 1. Definition of Misrepresentation -- 2. Inducement -- 3. Mental Element -- 4. Misrepresentation Made by or on Behalf of Another Party to the Contract -- 5. Liability in Damages -- 6. Cancellation -- B. The Fair Trading Act 1986 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Features of the Fair Trading Act -- a. In Trade -- b. Misleading or Deceptive or Likely to Mislead or Deceive -- c. Mental Element -- 3. Remedies -- a. Damages -- b. Avoidance and Variation -- c. Contracting Out -- Chapter 2. Conditions of Substantive Validity -- 1. CAPACITY OF PARTIES -- I. Minors' Contracts -- A. Minors' Contracts Legislation -- B. Tortious Liability of Minors -- II. Trading Corporations III. Mentally Disordered Persons -- A. Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act 1988 -- B. Common Law and Equity -- IV. Drunken Persons -- 2. DEFECTS OF CONSENT -- I. Mistake -- A. Scheme of Contractual Mistakes Provisions in the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017 -- B. Grounds for Relief -- 1. Meaning of 'Mistake' under the Act -- 2. Classes of Mistake Eligible for Relief -- 3. Requirement of Substantial Inequality of Exchange -- 4. Provisions Allocating Risk of Mistake -- C. Discretion to Grant Relief -- D. Remedies Preserved by the Contractual Mistakes Legislation -- 1. Rectification -- 2. Non Est Factum -- II. Misrepresentation -- III. Improper Pressure -- A. Introduction -- B. Economic Duress -- C. Undue Influence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Classes of Undue Influence -- 3. Manifest Disadvantage -- 4. Royal Bank of Scotland Plc Etridge (No. 2) -- 5. Proof of Undue Influence -- 6. Effect of Undue Influence -- 7. Suretyship Transactions -- D. Unconscionable Dealings -- E. Statutory Unconscionable Conduct -- IV. Illegality -- A. General -- B. Definition of an Illegal Contract -- C. Contracts Which Are Void Rather than Illegal -- 1. Contracts Ousting the Jurisdiction of the Courts -- 2. Contracts Affecting the Freedom or Security of Marriage -- D. Illegality at Common Law -- 1. Contracts to Commit a Criminal Offence, a Fraud or a Tort -- 2. Contracts Interfering with the Course of Justice -- 3. Contracts to Defraud the Revenue -- 4. Contracts Which Are Prejudicial to Good Government -- 5. Contracts Promoting Sexual Immorality -- E. Contracts in Breach of a Statute and the Illegality Provisions of the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017 -- F. Consequences of Illegality of a Contract -- G. Relief under the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017 -- 1. Power to Grant Relief Where Contract Is Illegal -- 2. Jurisdiction to Grant Discretionary Relief 3. Factors Relevant to the Exercise of the Discretion to Grant Relief -- H. Contracts in Restraint of Trade -- 1. General -- 2. Reasonable Restraints -- 3. Impact of Illegal Contracts Legislation -- Chapter 3. The Contents of a Contract -- 1. THE DIFFERENT CLAUSES -- I. Ascertaining of Express Terms -- A. The Parol Evidence Rule -- B. Collateral Contracts -- C. Representations and Terms -- II. Implied Terms -- A. Custom -- B. Statute -- C. The Courts -- 1. Implied by Law -- 2. Implied in Fact -- III. Exclusion Clauses -- A. Introduction -- B. Incorporation into the Contract -- C. Interpretation -- D. Fundamental Breach of Contract -- E. Statutory Control -- 1. Disputes Tribunal Act 1988 -- 2. Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017, Section 50 -- 3. Fair Trading Act 1986 -- 4. Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts -- 5. Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 -- IV. Penalty Clauses -- V. Arbitration Clauses -- 2. INTERPRETATION -- I. The Rules of Interpretation -- A. Introduction -- B. The Matrix of Fact -- C. Pre-contract Negotiations, Subsequent Conduct -- D. Business Common Sense -- E. Evidential Issues -- Chapter 4. Privity of Contract -- 1. THE DOCTRINE OF PRIVITY OF CONTRACT -- I. The Imposition of Contractual Liabilities upon Third Parties -- II. The Acquisition of Contractual Rights by Third Parties -- A. Introduction -- B. Remedies of the Promisee -- C. Trusts of Contractual Rights -- D. Exclusion Clauses and Third Parties -- E. Privity Legislation -- 1. Right of Enforcement to Third Parties -- 2. Variation or Discharge of the Contract -- 3. Defences -- 2. THE TRANSFER OF CONTRACTUAL RIGHTS -- I. Voluntary Assignment -- A. Introduction -- B. Assignment under the Property Law Act 1952 -- C. Assignment in Equity -- D. Consideration -- E. Notice -- F. Assignment Subject to Equities -- G. Assignment under the Property Law Act 2007 H. Limits on Assignability Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Todd, Stephen Contract Law in New Zealand Alphen aan den Rijn : Wolters Kluwer Law International,c2024 9789403511580 |
| spellingShingle | Todd, Stephen Contract Law in New Zealand Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- The Author -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- General Introduction -- Chapter 1. The General Background of the Country -- 1. GEOGRAPHY -- 2. CULTURAL COMPOSITION -- 3. OUTLINE OF CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL HISTORY OF NEW ZEALAND -- Chapter 2. Legal Family -- Chapter 3. Legislative Supremacy -- Chapter 4. Position of the Judiciary -- 1. THE JUDICIARY -- 2. THE MODERN COURT SYSTEM -- I. The Supreme Court -- II. The Court of Appeal -- III. The High Court -- IV. The District Court -- V. Disputes Tribunals -- VI. Other Courts and Tribunals -- Chapter 5. Public and Private Law -- Chapter 6. Civil and Commercial Law -- Introduction to the Law of Contract -- Chapter 1. Definition of Contract -- Chapter 2. Historical Development of Contract Law in New Zealand -- Chapter 3. Classification of Contracts -- 1. DEEDS -- 2. SIMPLE CONTRACTS -- 3. A LAW OF CONTRACT OR CONTRACTS? -- Chapter 4. Contract and Tort -- Chapter 5. Contract and Restitution -- Chapter 6. Contract and the Law of Property -- Chapter 7. Contract and Trust -- Chapter 8. Good Faith and Fair Dealing -- Chapter 9. Style of Drafting -- Chapter 10. Sources of the Law of Contracts -- Part I. General Principles of the Law of Contract -- Chapter 1. Formation of Contract -- 1. AGREEMENT -- I. Offer and Acceptance -- A. General -- 1. Bilateral and Unilateral Contracts Contrasted -- 2. Objective Test for Establishing Contractual Intent -- 3. 'Constructed' or Implied Contracts -- 4. Alternative Objective View of Contract Formation -- B. Definition of Offer -- 1. Offers Distinguished from Invitations to Treat -- 2. Examples -- C. Offers Capable of Giving Rise to More Than One Contract -- 1. Process Contracts -- 2. Collateral Contracts -- 3. Auctions -- 4. Options and Rights of Pre-emption -- D. Special Cases of Offers 1. Standing Offers -- 2. Sale of an Interest in Land -- 3. Ticket Cases -- E. Offers in Unilateral Contracts -- F. When Offer Is Effective -- G. Termination of Offer -- 1. Rejection of Offer -- 2. Revocation of Offer of Bilateral Contract -- 3. Revocation of Unilateral Offers -- 4. Termination of Offer by Effluxion of Time, Change of Circumstances, or Failure of a Condition to Which Offer Was Subject -- 5. Effect of Death or Supervening Incapacity of Offeror or Offeree -- H. Acceptance Generally -- 1. Acceptance in Retrospective Agreements -- 2. Acceptance in Bilateral and Unilateral Contracts Compared -- 3. Acceptance in Unilateral Contracts -- 4. Acceptance in Bilateral Contracts -- 5. Acceptance Where Means of Acceptance Stipulated -- I. Communication of Acceptance -- 1. General -- 2. Acceptances by Post and the 'Posting Rules' -- 3. Legislative Regime for Electronic Transactions -- J. Communications Containing or Imposing Fresh Terms or Conditions -- 1. Counter-Offers and 'Battle of the Forms' -- 2. Counter-Offers Generally -- K. Revocation of Acceptance -- II. Incomplete, Indefinite and Conditional Agreements -- A. Uncertainty -- 1. Matters Left for Future Decision -- 2. Future Agreements -- 3. Contractual Machinery and Its Use -- 4. Uncertainty as to Meaning of Terms of Agreement -- B. Conditional Contracts -- 1. Conditional Contracts Generally -- 2. Conditional or Provisional Agreements -- 3. Waiver of Conditions in Conditional Contracts -- 4. Obligation to Seek Fulfilment of Conditions -- III. Intention to Create Legal Relations -- A. General -- B. Business Transactions -- 1. General -- 2. Letters of Comfort -- 3. Agreements Between Trade Unions and Employers Outside the Industrial Law Regime -- C. Domestic Agreements -- D. Agreements Between Private Individuals and the State -- IV. The Doctrine of Consideration -- A. Definition 1. Introduction -- 2. Executory and Executed Consideration -- 3. Past Consideration Is No Consideration -- 4. Consideration Must Move from the Promisee -- 5. Adequacy of Consideration -- 6. Forbearance and Compromise -- B. Performance of Existing Duties -- 1. Performance of Existing Duty under the Law -- 2. Performance of an Existing Contract with a Third Person -- 3. Performance of an Existing Contract with the Promisor -- 4. Part Payment of a Debt -- C. Promissory Estoppel -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Traditional View: 'A Shield Not a Sword' -- 3. Modern Developments -- 2. FORMAL AND EVIDENTIAL REQUIREMENTS -- I. General -- II. Requirements as to Form in Particular Cases -- III. Property Law Act 2007 -- A. The Requirement of a Written Contract or Written Record of the Terms of the Contract -- B. The Requirement of a Signature -- C. Equitable Doctrine of Part Performance -- D. Contracts of Guarantee -- IV. Evidential Requirements -- A. General -- B. The 'Parol Evidence' Rule -- C. Notaries Public -- D. Burden of Proof -- 3. LIABILITY AND NEGOTIATIONS -- I. Pre-contractual Liability -- II. Breakdown of Negotiations -- III. Misrepresentation -- A. Contract Legislation -- 1. Definition of Misrepresentation -- 2. Inducement -- 3. Mental Element -- 4. Misrepresentation Made by or on Behalf of Another Party to the Contract -- 5. Liability in Damages -- 6. Cancellation -- B. The Fair Trading Act 1986 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Features of the Fair Trading Act -- a. In Trade -- b. Misleading or Deceptive or Likely to Mislead or Deceive -- c. Mental Element -- 3. Remedies -- a. Damages -- b. Avoidance and Variation -- c. Contracting Out -- Chapter 2. Conditions of Substantive Validity -- 1. CAPACITY OF PARTIES -- I. Minors' Contracts -- A. Minors' Contracts Legislation -- B. Tortious Liability of Minors -- II. Trading Corporations III. Mentally Disordered Persons -- A. Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act 1988 -- B. Common Law and Equity -- IV. Drunken Persons -- 2. DEFECTS OF CONSENT -- I. Mistake -- A. Scheme of Contractual Mistakes Provisions in the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017 -- B. Grounds for Relief -- 1. Meaning of 'Mistake' under the Act -- 2. Classes of Mistake Eligible for Relief -- 3. Requirement of Substantial Inequality of Exchange -- 4. Provisions Allocating Risk of Mistake -- C. Discretion to Grant Relief -- D. Remedies Preserved by the Contractual Mistakes Legislation -- 1. Rectification -- 2. Non Est Factum -- II. Misrepresentation -- III. Improper Pressure -- A. Introduction -- B. Economic Duress -- C. Undue Influence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Classes of Undue Influence -- 3. Manifest Disadvantage -- 4. Royal Bank of Scotland Plc Etridge (No. 2) -- 5. Proof of Undue Influence -- 6. Effect of Undue Influence -- 7. Suretyship Transactions -- D. Unconscionable Dealings -- E. Statutory Unconscionable Conduct -- IV. Illegality -- A. General -- B. Definition of an Illegal Contract -- C. Contracts Which Are Void Rather than Illegal -- 1. Contracts Ousting the Jurisdiction of the Courts -- 2. Contracts Affecting the Freedom or Security of Marriage -- D. Illegality at Common Law -- 1. Contracts to Commit a Criminal Offence, a Fraud or a Tort -- 2. Contracts Interfering with the Course of Justice -- 3. Contracts to Defraud the Revenue -- 4. Contracts Which Are Prejudicial to Good Government -- 5. Contracts Promoting Sexual Immorality -- E. Contracts in Breach of a Statute and the Illegality Provisions of the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017 -- F. Consequences of Illegality of a Contract -- G. Relief under the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017 -- 1. Power to Grant Relief Where Contract Is Illegal -- 2. Jurisdiction to Grant Discretionary Relief 3. Factors Relevant to the Exercise of the Discretion to Grant Relief -- H. Contracts in Restraint of Trade -- 1. General -- 2. Reasonable Restraints -- 3. Impact of Illegal Contracts Legislation -- Chapter 3. The Contents of a Contract -- 1. THE DIFFERENT CLAUSES -- I. Ascertaining of Express Terms -- A. The Parol Evidence Rule -- B. Collateral Contracts -- C. Representations and Terms -- II. Implied Terms -- A. Custom -- B. Statute -- C. The Courts -- 1. Implied by Law -- 2. Implied in Fact -- III. Exclusion Clauses -- A. Introduction -- B. Incorporation into the Contract -- C. Interpretation -- D. Fundamental Breach of Contract -- E. Statutory Control -- 1. Disputes Tribunal Act 1988 -- 2. Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017, Section 50 -- 3. Fair Trading Act 1986 -- 4. Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts -- 5. Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 -- IV. Penalty Clauses -- V. Arbitration Clauses -- 2. INTERPRETATION -- I. The Rules of Interpretation -- A. Introduction -- B. The Matrix of Fact -- C. Pre-contract Negotiations, Subsequent Conduct -- D. Business Common Sense -- E. Evidential Issues -- Chapter 4. Privity of Contract -- 1. THE DOCTRINE OF PRIVITY OF CONTRACT -- I. The Imposition of Contractual Liabilities upon Third Parties -- II. The Acquisition of Contractual Rights by Third Parties -- A. Introduction -- B. Remedies of the Promisee -- C. Trusts of Contractual Rights -- D. Exclusion Clauses and Third Parties -- E. Privity Legislation -- 1. Right of Enforcement to Third Parties -- 2. Variation or Discharge of the Contract -- 3. Defences -- 2. THE TRANSFER OF CONTRACTUAL RIGHTS -- I. Voluntary Assignment -- A. Introduction -- B. Assignment under the Property Law Act 1952 -- C. Assignment in Equity -- D. Consideration -- E. Notice -- F. Assignment Subject to Equities -- G. Assignment under the Property Law Act 2007 H. Limits on Assignability |
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