Contract: cases and materials
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Contract
Cases and Materials
Third edition
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H G Beale BA
Barrister; Professor of Law,
University of Warwick
W D Bishop MA, BCL, PhD
Chairman, Lexecon Ltd
(Consultant Economists)
*
M P Furmston TD, BCL, MA, LLM
$ Bencher of Gray s Inn; Professor
of Law, University of Bristol
Institut fur RechtsgesShicJ^ rom au«
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Senckenberganlage3^ 6000^ Rankfurt/M
Butterworths
London, Dublin, Edinburgh
/• 1995
Contents
Preface v
Suggested core readings for first year students xiii
Acknowledgements xv
Table of statutes xxi
Table of cases xxvii
SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 Contracts and contract law 3
?*, (a) The scope of contract law 3
(b) The function of contract law 6
(c) Contract as a dynamic body of rules 8
(d)^Different approaches to contract law 10
(e) Economic and empirical analysis 10
(f) Plan of the book 11
(g) Using the book 12
Chapter 2 Contract, tort and restitution 13
(a) Contract 13
(b) Tort and contract 23
(c) Restitution and contract 37
Chapter 3 The functions of contract law 45
Chapter 4 Economic analysis of contract law 71
Chapter 5 Empirical work 79
/ SECTION 2 ENFORCEABLE TYPES OF PROMISE
/
Chapter 6 Consideration 93
(a) Definitions of consideration 93
(b) Sufficient consideration 95
(c) Exchange 118
(d) Gratuitous promises and bargains 125
(e) Moral obligations 135
(f) Formal requirements 139
(g) Reliance on non-bargain promises 142
viii Contents
Chapter 7 Intention to create legal relations 167
SECTION 3 HAS AN AGREEMENT BEEN REACHED?
Chapter 8 Offer and acceptance 181
(a) The objective principle 182
(b) Offer or preliminary negotiations 185
(c) Acceptance in bilateral contracts 194
(d) Acceptance in unilateral contracts 202
(e) Bilateral or unilateral? 207
(f) Differing proposals 208
(g) Postal communications 216
(h) Exchange of contracts 224
(i) Tenders 227
Chapter 9 Uncertainty and incompleteness 238
(a) Uncertainty 239
(b) Incompleteness 243
(c) Preliminary contracts 250
•» , (d) Work done and steps taken before a contract has been agreed 258
Chapter 10 Communication mistakes 262
(a) Mistakes as to the terms 262
(b) Rectification 269
(c) Misunderstanding as to terms 273
(d) Mistaken expectations 275
(e) Mistakes as to identity 281
(f) Non est factum 288
SECTION 4 OBLIGATIONS AND RISKS
Chapter 11 Express terms in oral agreements 293
(a) Terms, representations and puffs 293
(b) What was being promised? 297
(c) Incorporation of written terms into an oral contract 301
Chapter 12 Contents of written contracts 313
(a) Effect of signature 313
y (b) Parol evidence rule 316
Chapter 13 Inaccurate information and misrepresentation 321
(a) Rescission for misrepresentation 322
(b) Limits to rescission for misrepresentation 329
0 (c) Rescission and consequential loss 335
(d) Damages for misrepresentation 336
(e) Attempts to exclude or restrict liability for misrepresentation 347
$ Chapter 14 Gapfilling by interpretation 350
Contents ix
(a) Introduction 350
(b) Interpretation 357
Chapter 15 Implied terms 365
(a) Terms implied by custom 365
(b) Terms implied by statute 366
(c) Terms implied at common law 367
(d) Contracts for the sale or supply of goods 377
(e) Contracts for services 392
(f) Contracts of employment 394
(g) Justifications for^ implied terms 400
Chapter 16 Discharge by frustration 402
(a) The juristic basis of frustration 405
(b) Should one party bear the risk? 409
(c) Frustration of purpose 415
(d) Foreseen events 420
(e) Effect of frustration 422
(f) Relief in cases of hardship 433 *
Chapter 17 Expectation mistakes 438
Chapter 18 Discharge by construction 456
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Chapter 19 Duties of disclosure 464
(a) Undue influence 465
(b) Contracts uberrimae fidei 465
(c) Information wrongfully obtained 466
(d) Statutory duties of disclosure 466
(e) A general duty of disclosure? 467
SECTION 5 REMEDIES
Chapter 20 Some preliminary questions 479
(a) The distinction between rights and remedies 479
(b) Self-help and judicial remedies 480
(c) Off-the-shelf remedies and expressly planned remedies 481
Chapter 21 Withholding performance and termination for default 482
(a) The notion of conditions 483
(b) Conditions and the order of performance 485
(c) Entire and severable obligations 487
(d) Effect of partial performance of an entire obligation 490
(e) Conditions and warranties 495
(f) A more flexible approach 497
(g) Time stipulations 504
(h) Conditions in unilateral contracts and options 511
(i) Anticipatory breach 511
(j) Relief against forfeiture 518
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(k) Reprise: flexibility or certainty? 521
(1) Agreed rights of termination 527
(m) The nature of termination 538
(n) Loss of the right to terminate 540
Chapter 22 Damages 546
(a) The basic measure of recovery 546
(b) Remoteness of damage 563
(c) Mitigation 570
(d) Quantification 579
(e) Problem cases ^ 585
(f) Agreed damages, deposits and forfeitures 599
(g) Reprise: liability for consequential damages 613
Chapter 23 Literal enforcement 617
(a) Specific performance and injunction 617
(b) Action for sums due under the contract 635
Chapter 24 Restitutionary remedies 644
(a) Unjust enrichment by subtraction 644
* (b) Unjust enrichment by wrongdoing 647
SECTION 6 CONTRACT THEORY
Chapter 25 Why are promises binding? 655
Chapter 26 Economic analysis of contract law 676
Chapter 27 The impact of the empirical studies 678
Chapter 28 Critical approaches to contract 682
Chapter 29 Developing the relational contract notion 697
Chapter 30 Fairness and distributive justice 701
Chapter 31 Transformation thesis 721
SECTION 7 CHANGING THE BARGAIN
Chapter 32 Rescission, variation, waiver and promissory estoppel 727
(a) The setting 727
(b) Basic concepts 728
(c) Discharge or variation by contract 729
(d) Waiver 739
Chapter 33 Adjustments in longer-term contracts 759
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Contents xi
SECTION 8 POLICING THE BARGAIN
Chapter 34 Duress 777
Chapter 35 Undue pressure and undue influence 791
Chapter 36 Unconscionable bargains 803
(a) Mortgages 803-
(b) Poor and ignorant persons and expectant heirs 804
(c) The insane 809
(d) Salvage agreements 812
(e) Consumer credit^ 813
(f) Minors 815
(g) Restraint of trade 815
Chapter 37 A general principle? 817
(a) Is there a general principle? 817
(b) Possible advantages of a general doctrine 821
V
Chapter 38 Standard form contracts 827
Chapter 39 Exclusion clauses 837
(a) The common law approach to exclusion clauses: interpretation 839
(b) Statutory controls 857
V
Chapter 40 Unfair terms in consumer contracts 894
Chapter 41 Regulated contracts 905
(a) Necessities in short supply 905
(b) Intractable problems of inadequate information 906
(c) Problems with transactions costs 908
(d) Vulnerability to exploitation in long-term relationships 908
(e) Private enforcement costs are too high 909
(f) Monopolies, oligopolies and anti-competitive arrangements 911
(g) Paternalism 911
SECTION 9 ILLEGALITY
Chapter 42 Contracts contrary to public policy 917
(a) The heads of public policy 920
(b) Policy issues 925
Chapter 43 Contracts involving the commission of a crime or a tort 927
(a) Contracts requiring the deliberate commission of a crime or a tort 927
(b) Contracts involving other unlawful acts 928
(c) Benefits from deliberate illegal acts 936
(d) Summary 939
(e) Collateral contracts 940
(f) Recovery of payments or property 941
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(g) Severance 950
Chapter 44 Contracts in restraint of trade 951
SECTION 10 INTERMEDIARIES, THIRD PARTIES AND ASSIGNMENT
Chapter 45 Agency- -971
(a) Intermediary or party? 971
(b) Types of authority 972
(c) The unauthorised agent 974
(d) The undisclosed principal 976
Chapter 46 Privity and the benefit of a contract between others 980
(a) The basic rule 980
(b) Damages on behalf of another 986
(c) Qualifications to the privity rule 993
(d) Negative benefits, or vicarious immunity 995
(e) Privity of contract and liability iri tort 1003
(f) Circles of indemnity 1016
V ,s, (g) Reform 1019
(h) Agency and privity 1031
Chapter 47 Subsequent assignment of the benefit of a contract 1034
fa) Assignment 1034
(b) Negotiable instruments 1035
Chapter 48 Privity and burdens 1038
(a) Undisclosed principals 1038
(b) Bailment 1038
(c) Tort 1042
(d) Property 1042
Chapter 49 Assignment and the burden of a contract 1045
Appendix Specimen contracts 1047
Index 1083
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