Author: Ian R. Macneil

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Published: 2001

Total Pages: 1374

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Extensive compilation of cases illustrating the development of those laws governing contracts, accompanied by informed text and explanatory materials. Chapter titles discuss: The Foundations and Functions of Contract; Exchange, Society, Contract and Law; Contract and Continuing Relations; Social Control and Utilization of Contractual Relations; Basic Contract Law Concepts Continued: Consideration, Agreement, Litigation, Content, Conditions, Assignment; Planning Contractual Relations; Planning for Performance Revisited; Planning for Risks: Indemnity, Suretyship, Insurance; Planning the Substance of Dispute Resolution; Planning Self-Help Remedies; Planning Processes of Dispute Resolution; and Legal Consequences of Incomplete and Ineffective Risk Planning.