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Contract as promise : a theory of contractual obligation / Charles Fried.
Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]Copyright date: 2015Edition: Second EditionDescription: xiv, 202 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780190240158
- 0190240156
- K 840 .F74 2015
Contents:
Introduction : the life of contract -- Contract as promise -- Promise -- The moral obligation of promise -- What a promise is worth -- Remedies in and around the promise -- Consideration -- Answering a promise : offer and acceptance -- Promises and vows -- Acceptance and the law of third-party beneficiaries -- The simple circuitry of offer and acceptance -- Rejections, counteroffers, contracts at a distance, crossed offers -- Reliance on an offer -- Gaps -- Mistake, frustration, and impossibility -- Letting the loss lie where it falls -- Parallels with general legal theory : an excursion -- Filling the gaps -- Good faith -- "Honesty in Fact" -- Good faith in performance -- Duress and unconscionability -- Duress -- Coercion and rights -- Property -- Hard bargains -- Unconscionability, economic duress, and social justice -- Bad samaritans -- The importance of being right -- You can always get your money back -- Conditions -- Waivers, forfeitures, repudiations.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 1662-193) and index.
Introduction : the life of contract -- Contract as promise -- Promise -- The moral obligation of promise -- What a promise is worth -- Remedies in and around the promise -- Consideration -- Answering a promise : offer and acceptance -- Promises and vows -- Acceptance and the law of third-party beneficiaries -- The simple circuitry of offer and acceptance -- Rejections, counteroffers, contracts at a distance, crossed offers -- Reliance on an offer -- Gaps -- Mistake, frustration, and impossibility -- Letting the loss lie where it falls -- Parallels with general legal theory : an excursion -- Filling the gaps -- Good faith -- "Honesty in Fact" -- Good faith in performance -- Duress and unconscionability -- Duress -- Coercion and rights -- Property -- Hard bargains -- Unconscionability, economic duress, and social justice -- Bad samaritans -- The importance of being right -- You can always get your money back -- Conditions -- Waivers, forfeitures, repudiations.
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