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Contract as assumption : essays on a theme /

It has many times been said that contracts involve assumptions of obligation or liability, but what that means, and what it is that is assumed, have not often been discussed. It is to further such discussion that some of the author's previously published writings around this subject have been b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coote, Brian
Otros Autores: Bigwood, Rick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The essence of contract
  • Consideration and benefit in fact and law
  • Consideration and the variation of contracts : a different solution
  • Consideration and the joint promisee
  • The function of exception clauses
  • The second rise and fall of fundamental breach
  • Contract damages, Ruxley, and the performance interest
  • The performance interest, Panatown, and the problem of loss
  • Contract not trust : some questions about the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act from another perspective
  • Assumption of responsibility and pure economic loss in New Zealand.