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Calculating promises : the emergence of modern American contract doctrine /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I. Gifts and promises revisited. The revolution in consideration doctrine ; The gift from beyond the grave: case law ; Responding to revolution: moving gifts and consideration through the twentieth century ; Speculating on gifts and promises
- pt. II. Speculations of contract. Distinguished gambles: the struggle to separate speculation and insurance from gambling ; "Contracts" for "futures": Commercial speculation and the gambling stigma ; Wagering in lives: the life insurance speculators ; Acquistive individuality vs. communal efficiency: conflicting policies and the love-hate relationship with risk
- pt. III. The narratives of incomplete contracts. Framing incomplete contracts ; The use and abuse of historical narrative: debates over incomplete contracts ; Evaluating the frame of incompleteness discourse.