The expert authors of this legendary Hornbook Series: Contracts title provide a detailed treatment of the basic rules, principles, and issues in contracts.
Topics covered include offer and acceptance, parol evidence and interpretation, consideration, informal contracts, promissory estoppel, contracts under seal, capacity of parties, conditions, performance, and breach.
This hornbook also discusses damages, regulations, third-party beneficiaries, statutes, and frauds. The discharge of contracts and illegal bargains are also discussed.
Features and Benefits:
 Timesaving reference guide;
Enhances understanding of contracts;
Cites statutes, regulations, and uniform laws;
Ideal supplement to casebooks on commercial law and contracts.
Table of Contents includes:
Offer and Acceptance;
Parol Evidence and Interpretation;
Consideration;
Informal Contracts Without Consideration or Injurious Reliance;
Promissory Estoppel: Detrimental Reliance as a Substitute for Consideration and a Lot of Other Things;
Contracts Under Seal;
Capacity of Parties;
Avoidance or Reformation for Misconduct of Mistake;
Reserved for Future Use;
Conditions, Performance and Breach;
Anticipatory Breach and Prospective Non-Performance;
Impossibility or Impracticability of Performance, Frustration of the Venture;
Damages;
Restitution as a Remedy for Breach;
Specific Performance and Injunctions;
Third Party Beneficiaries;
Assignment and Delegation;
Statute of Frauds;
Joint and Several Contracts;
Discharge of Contracts;
Illegal Bargains.
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