| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 217 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Essence of contract -- Consideration and benefit in fact and law -- Consideration and the variation of contracts : a different solution -- Consideration and the joint promisee -- Function of exception clauses -- Second rise and fall of fundamental breach -- Contract damages, Ruxley, and the performance interest -- Performance interest, Panatown, and the problem of loss -- Contract not trust : some questions about the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act from another perspective -- Assumption of responsibility and pure economic loss in New Zealand. |
| Summary |
It has many times been said that contracts involve assumptions of obligation or liability, but what that means, and what it is that is assumed, have not often been discussed. It is to further such discussion that some of the author's previously published writings around this subject have been brought together in this book. His basic premises are that contractual obligation and liability in this context are two sides to the same coin and that an assumption of one is an assumption of both. Parties are bound not because liability has been imposed upon them by law as a result of their having entere. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Contracts -- Philosophy.
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Contracts -- Philosophy. |
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Obligations (Law)
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Obligations (Law) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bigwood, Rick.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Coote, Brian. Contract as assumption. Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2010 9781849460293 (DLC) 2010455720 (OCoLC)477289248 |
| ISBN |
9781847315786 (electronic book) |
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184731578X (electronic book) |
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9781849460293 |
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1849460299 |
| Standard No. |
9786612806520 |
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