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Mistakes in contract law /

It is a matter of some difficulty for the English lawyer to predict the effect of a misapprehension upon the formation of a contract. The common law doctrine of mistake is a confused one, with contradictory theoretical underpinnings and seemingly irreconcilable cases. This book explains the common l...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: MacMillan, Catharine
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Hart Pub., 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prelims; Preface; Contents; Table of Cases; Table of Statutes; 1 Introduction; 2 Contractual Mistake in Roman Law; 3 Contractual Mistake in English Law; 4 The Lack of Contractual Mistake at Common Law and the Nineteenth-century Transformation of Procedure; 5 Pothier and the Development of Mistake in English Contract Law; 6 Von Savigny and the Development of Mistake in English Contract Law; 7 The Creation of Contractual Mistake in Nineteenth-century Common Law; 8 Mistake of Identity; 9 Mistake after Fusion; 10 Summary and Conclusions; Index.