Contract as promise : a theory of contractual obligation /
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| Author / Creator: | Fried, Charles, 1935- author. |
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| Edition: | Second Edition. |
| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2015. |
| Description: | xiv, 202 pages ; 21 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10161945 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the life of contract
- Contract as promise
- Promise
- The moral obligation of promise
- What a promise is worth
- Remedies in and around the promise
- Consideration
- Answering a promise : offer and acceptance
- Promises and vows
- Acceptance and the law of third-party beneficiaries
- The simple circuitry of offer and acceptance
- Rejections, counteroffers, contracts at a distance, crossed offers
- Reliance on an offer
- Gaps
- Mistake, frustration, and impossibility
- Letting the loss lie where it falls
- Parallels with general legal theory : an excursion
- Filling the gaps
- Good faith
- "Honesty in Fact"
- Good faith in performance
- Duress and unconscionability
- Duress
- Coercion and rights
- Property
- Hard bargains
- Unconscionability, economic duress, and social justice
- Bad samaritans
- The importance of being right
- You can always get your money back
- Conditions
- Waivers, forfeitures, repudiations.