Research Catalog

Title

Contract law and practice : the English system and continental comparisons / by Michael H. Whincup.

Author

Whincup, Michael H.

Publication

Deventer ; Boston : Kluwer Law and Taxation Publishers, c1992.

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Description

xxxii, 282 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

European integration brings with it an ever-increasing need for English and Continental lawyers to know more of each other's legal systems. This book meets that need by providing lawyers and law students with a clear and accessible introduction to the basic principles of English commercial contract law and equivalent Continental rules. The book is commercially orientated and essentially practical in approach. Wherever possible examples are given of English standard commercial forms and usages, and their effects discussed. A unique and most valuable feature is in the commentaries at the end of each chapter on the relevant laws of six other Member States of the Common Market, written by eminent lawyers. The book will be equally attractive to English and Continental law and business students, and to Continental lawyers seeking an understanding of the vocabulary and principles of English law.

Subject

• Contracts > Great Britain
• Contracts > European Economic Community countries

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction. The English legal system -- Ch. 1. Intention and certainty -- Ch. 2. Offer and acceptance -- Ch. 3. Consideration and estoppel -- Ch. 4. Writing and capacity -- Ch. 5. Conditions, warranties and innominate terms: Express and implied terms -- Ch. 6. Fitness of goods and services -- Ch. 7. Exclusion clauses and other unfair contract terms -- Ch. 8. Risk -- Ch. 9. Delivery and payment -- Ch. 10. Mistake -- Ch. 11. Misrepresentation, duress and illegal contracts -- Ch. 12. Frustration -- Ch. 13. Remedies for breach of contract.

ISBN

9065446508

OCLC

27408783

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library