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Title

Changing your mind : the law of regretted decisions / E. Allan Farnsworth.

Author

Farnsworth, E. Allan (Edward Allan), 1928-

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, c1998.

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Details

Description

xi, 271 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"When does the law permit you to change your mind and reverse a decision you have made? In this masterful book, a foremost authority on American contract law identifies and discusses the general principles and legal rules that bear on this question. E. Allan Farnsworth also offers suggestions to improve the laws that pertain to regretted decisions. Honorable mention in the 1999 Scribes Book Award Competition Book jacket."--Jacket.

Subject

• Contracts
• Promise (Law)
• Regret

Genre/Form

• contracts.
• Contracts
• Contrats.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-260) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Wanting to make a commitment -- Regretting being committed -- How a promise expresses commitment -- Why a promise should commit -- When a promise does commit -- A surrogate for an enigma -- Wanting to make a commitment (reprise) -- Enforceable promises to make gifts -- Commitment without promise -- The reach of a commitment -- The strength of a commitment -- Interlude -- Relinquishment by performance -- Reinforcement by gift -- What can be given -- Relinquishment by waiver -- Preclusion by equitable estoppel and laches -- Preclusion by rejection -- Preclusion by election -- Preclusion by prescription.

ISBN

0300073054 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97052196^

OCLC

38258354

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library