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The law of contract, 1670-1870 /
"The foundations for modern contract law were laid between 1670 and 1870. Rather than advancing a purely chronological account, this examination of the development of contract law doctrine in England during that time explores key themes in order to better understand the drivers of legal change....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [UK] :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in English legal history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Table of cases; Table of statutes; 1 Introduction ; 2 The legal system and the law of contract ; 3 Lawyers and merchants I ; 4 Lawyers and merchants II ; 5 Equity and the Common law ; 6 Lord Mansfield and his successors ; 7 Equity and the regulation of unfairness in contracting: the usury laws as a case study ; 8 The classical model of contract: the product of a revolution in legal thought? ; 9 Classical contract law and its limits ; 10 Contract law, illegality and public policy.
- 11 Contract law and statute law 12 The law of contract: stability and change ; Bibliography; Index.