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Justice in transactions : a theory of contract law /

This book seeks to provide a moral basis for contract law that can not only make sense of its main doctrines in their own terms but also bring out the distinct conception of justice that actually animates them. The author shows in detail that this conception of justice is purely transactional and no...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Benson, Peter, 1953- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part One. Principles: A. Formation
  • Consideration : its meaning, role, and consequences
  • Offer and acceptance, the objective test, and contractual intent
  • Implication
  • B. Fairness
  • The paradigm of contractual fairness : the principle of unconscionability
  • Three other doctrines about fair terms
  • Fairness and assent in standard form contracts
  • C. Enforcement
  • Fundamental ideas
  • Unity and diversity in the law of contract remedies
  • Expectation damages and contract theory
  • Part Two. Theory : contract as a transfer of ownership
  • A moral basis for contract as transfer
  • The stability of contract as transfer.