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Title

Contract formation and parties / edited by Andrew Burrows and Edwin Peel.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Burrows, A. S. (Andrew S.)
• Peel, Edwin

Description

xxviii, 258 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Contract Formation and Parties presents a collection of current thinking on the central themes of contract formation and parties. The eighth volume in the Oxford-Norton Rose Law series the chapters originate from papers presented at the colloquium held in September 2009. The Oxford-Norton Rose Law colloquia bring together practitioners and academics to examine and discuss an area of commercial law central to both communities." -- Publisher's information.

Series Statement

Oxford-Norton Rose law colloquium

Subject

Contracts > Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Overview / Andrew Burrows and Edwin Peel -- Letters of intent / Michael Furmston -- Agreements to negotiate in good faith / Edwin Peel -- Offer and acceptance in the electronic age / Donal Nolan -- A bird in the hand : consideration and contract modifications / Mindy Chen-Wishart -- Promissory estoppel and debts / Ben McFarlane -- Liability in tort for pre-contractual non-disclosure / John Cartwright -- Liability in unjust enrichment where a contract fails to materialize / James Edelman -- Problems in assignment law : not yet out of the wood? / Andrew Tettenborn -- Agency law for muggles : why there is no magic in agency / Thomas Krebs -- A review of the contracts (rights of third parties) Act 1999 / Hugh Beale.

ISBN

• 9780199583706 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0199583706 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010455950

OCLC

619082126

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library