Full Description
Jill Poole's bestselling Casebook on Contract Law provides students with a comprehensive selection of case law, addressing all aspects of the subject encountered on undergraduate courses.Extracts have been carefully chosen from a wide range of historical and contemporary cases to illustrate the reasoning processes of the courts, and to show how legal principles develop. Cases can either be analysed and discussed in isolation or, taken as a whole, the selection of cases form chapters providing a structured overview of the modern law of contract.Online Resource CentreThe casebook is fully supported by an Online Resource Centre, which provides:- Self-test questions and answers - Guidance on answering questions in contract law - Exercises and guidance on reading cases - An opportunity for students to ask the author any questions
Contents
12: Agreement3: Agreement problems4: Enforceability of promises: consideration and promissory estoppel5: Intention to be legally bound and capacity to contract6: Content of the contract and principles of interpretation7: Exemption clauses and unfair contract terms8: Breach of contract9: Damages for breach of contract10: Remedies providing for specific relief and restitutionary remedies11: Privity of contract and third party rights12: Discharge by frustration: subsequent impossibility13: Common mistake: initial impossibility14: Misrepresentation15: Duress, undue influence, and unconscionability16: Illegality
