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010 _a 2014039639
020 _a9780190240158
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040 _aDLC
_beng
_erda
_cDLC
_dUK-RwCLS
042 _apcc
050 0 4 _aK 840
_b.F74 2015
090 _aK 840 .F74 2015
100 1 _aFried, Charles,
_d1935-
_eauthor.
_99430
245 1 0 _aContract as promise :
_ba theory of contractual obligation /
_cCharles Fried.
250 _aSecond Edition.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bOxford University Press,
_c[2015]
264 4 _c2015
300 _axiv, 202 pages ;
_c21 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 1662-193) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : 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.
650 0 _aContracts.
_99431
650 0 _aPromise (Law)
_99432
942 _2lcc
_cBOOK
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