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Good faith in contract and property /

Good faith is already a familiar concept in international commercial law and a recognised principle of substantive law in several major legal systems. In the United Kingdom, however, a role for good faith and, more fundamentally, the issue of whether or not there ought to be a general principle of g...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Forte, A. D. M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 1999.
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  • Half Title Page; Title Page; Title verso; Contents; Expanded Table of Contents; Table of Cases; Table of Legislation and Delgated Legislation; Table of International Conventions and Principles; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Good Faith in the Scots Law of Contract: An Undisclosed Principle?; Introduction; What is Good Faith in Contract Law?; Scots Law; The Utility of Recognising a Good Faith Principle; Culpa in Contrahendo; Scots Law on Pre-contractual Liability; Conclusion; 3. Good Faith: A Matter of Principle?; Introduction; Good Faith in Other Jurisdictions.
  • Is English law really so different?An Aversion to General Principles?; Contracting for Good Faith; The Global Economy; Challenging Rules which do not Presently Conform with Good Faith; The Need for Clarity; 4. Good Faith in Contracting: A Sceptical View; Introduction; What is Good Faith?; Good Faith and Consumers; Conclusions; 5. Good Faith and Utmost Good Faith: Insurance and Cautionary Obligations in Scots Law; Introduction; Insurance and the Concept of Utmost Good Faith; Cautionary Obligations and the Principle of Good Faith; Good Faith Beyond Insurance and Caution?
  • 6. Good Faith in Scots Property LawIntroduction; Common Law Contexts; Statutory Contexts; Conclusions; 7. Good Faith and the Doctrine of Personal Bar; Good Faith and the Doctrine of Personal Bar; The Ambit of Personal Bar; The First Model-An Original Pure Principle of Personal Bar?; English Law as a Solution?; Consent Based Models; The Reliance on Representation Model; The Equity Model; A Good Faith Model; Negligence; Fraud; Three Party Cases and their Resolution; Good Faith Shields Have Spikes; Conclusion; 8. Good Faith: A Principled Matter; Introduction.
  • Existence and Absence of a Good Faith Principle: Institutional ReasonsExistence and Absence of a Good Faith Principle: Legal Cultural Reasons; Parliamentary or Judicial Law Reform?; Good Faith: Imposition or Implied term?; Contracts and Community Values; Good Faith: An Uncertain Principle?; Contractual Certainty and the Limits of Language; Exclusion Clauses; Undue Influence and Duress; Equity: A Less Certain Principle than Good Faith?; Good Faith: An Undisclosed but Weak Principle?; Conclusion; 9. Good Faith in Consumer Contracts: Rule, Policy and Principle; Introduction.
  • The Good Faith Rule: Some Introductory CommentsEuropean Consumer Policy; The Good Faith Rule Revisited; Objective or Subjective Good Faith?; A General Principle of Good Faith; Concluding Comment; Index.