Contract Law
Description
Fully updated with the latest legal developments, Contract Law is your essential guide to the life of a contract. It covers all stages of the process, from negotiation and formation, through its possible modification to the ending of a contract including a thorough examination of available remedies. Offering a modern, engaging account of all aspects of contract law, this new edition will give you a clear understanding of the legal principles which underpin the contractual process.
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Roger Halson is Professor of Contract and Commercial Law at the University of Leeds. He has written widely in contract law and his work has been referred to in UK House of Lords (now the Supreme Court), as well as appellate courts overseas.
Content
1. Introduction
PART I: THE NEGOTIATION STAGE
2. Negotiating the Contract
PART II: THE BIRTH OF THE CONTRACT
Section A. Formation of a Contract: The Positive Requirements
3. Agreement: Offer and Acceptance
4. The Enforceability of Agreements: Consideration and its Alternatives
5. Form, Intention and Certainty
Section B. Formation: Negative Factors.
6. Illegality in Formation
7. Non-Agreement Mistakes
Section C. Personnel.
8. Capacity
9. Third Parties
PART III: THE LIFE OF THE CONTRACT
10. The Content of the Contract: Express and Implied Terms
11. The Content of the Contract: Exclusion Clauses
12. The Modification of Contracts
13. Performance
PART IV: THE DEATH OF THE CONTRACT
14. Frustration
15. Termination for Breach
PART V: THE AFTERMATH
16. Literal Performance
17. Damages for Breach of Contract