This guide is ideal for all students as it provides a clear and detailed account of contract law, explaining the underlying principles and how the law operates in practice. As part of the Textbook Series, Contract Law:
- Sets out a clear framework and seeks to explain the intricacies of the law of contract as clearly as possible, without sacrificing the detail that is required for a proper understanding of the subject
- Concentrates on topics common to the majority of undergraduate law courses
- Goes through the life of a contract from formation through to discharge and remedies as well as dealing with the contents of the contract and vitiating factors
- Focuses on UK common law but covers relevant EU law and makes comparisons with other common law jurisdictions
- Includes topical and relevant practical examples to help draw out key principles
- Contains a glossary of key terms at the beginning of the book
- Includes references to further reading from relevant literature at the end of each chapter to enable students to expand their knowledge
- Breaks down difficult concepts in a way students find easy to understand
- Introduction to the law of contract
- Offer and acceptance
- Certainty and intention
- Consideration and estoppel
- Formalities and capacity
- Contractual terms
- Exclusion and limitation clauses
- Privity of contract
- Discharge by performance, breach and agreement
- Frustration
- Misrepresentation
- Mistake
- Duress and undue influence
- Illegality
- Contracts in restraint of trade
- Remedies I: damages for breach of contract
- Remedies II: equitable remedies, restitution and limitation of actions
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