Format:
XIV, 202 S.
,
23 cm
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9780190240165
,
9780190240158
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Introduction : the life of contractContract 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.
Additional Edition:
Online-Ausg.: Fried, Charles, 1935 - 2024 Contract as promise Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2015 ISBN 9780190240196
Language:
English
Subjects:
Law
Keywords:
Vertrag
;
Versprechen
;
Vertragsrecht
;
Rechtstheorie
