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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Coote, Brian
Other Authors: Bigwood, Rick
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2010.
Subjects:
Contracts > Philosophy.
Obligations (Law)
Contrats > Philosophie.
Obligations (Droit)
Contract law.
LAW > Liability.
LAW > Contracts.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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