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Table of Contents
Part I. Overview, methodology, formation and evolution of commercial promises
1. Guiding themes and content of this book
2. Methodology
3. The law of contracts in a pre-commercial or agricultural survival society
4. Roman law
Part II. Medieval law: guilds, agents and notaries
5. Medieval law
6. Guilds and the capitalist system and Marxist legal systems
7. The Latin notariat and contemporary contracts
Part III. European codification
8. The French 'code civil'; key politics and drafting method
9. The birth of a continental European commercial law; fair and commercial courts
10. The 'code de commerce' of 1808
11. Socio-economic context of Germany's civil and commercial codes
12. The codification of the German civil and commercial codes
13. Customs, usages and other sources of commercial contract law in German and other representative codes
Part IV. Familistic and socialist variants of the civil law
14. Latin American codification and its all-important colonial background
15. Soviet commercial contract law
16. The peculiar meaning of Soviet and post-Soviet commercial contracts: an invertebrate legal system
17. Chinese imperial, mostly living-law of contracts
18. Contracts and litigation in imperial and Mao's China
19. Contemporary land contracts, third parties and judicial law making
Part V. Anglo-American law
20. Socio-economic and legal contexts and English commercial contracts
21. The socio-economic and legal contexts of U.S. commercial contracts
Part VI. Formation, interpretation and adjudication of contractual and customary law disputes
22. Formation of contracts: ceremony or conduct?
23. Two guiding principles for the interpretation of commercial contracts: good faith and reasonableness
24. Drafting commercial practices and the growth of commercial contract law
25. Brief overview of commercial trial procedure
26. Pre-contractual liability: culpa in contrahendo
27. Excuses for non-performance of contracts
28. Extrajudicial remedies and the remedy of specific performance
29. Judicial and extrajudicial termination
30. Damages for breach of warranty in U.S. economic analysis influenced law.
1. Guiding themes and content of this book
2. Methodology
3. The law of contracts in a pre-commercial or agricultural survival society
4. Roman law
Part II. Medieval law: guilds, agents and notaries
5. Medieval law
6. Guilds and the capitalist system and Marxist legal systems
7. The Latin notariat and contemporary contracts
Part III. European codification
8. The French 'code civil'; key politics and drafting method
9. The birth of a continental European commercial law; fair and commercial courts
10. The 'code de commerce' of 1808
11. Socio-economic context of Germany's civil and commercial codes
12. The codification of the German civil and commercial codes
13. Customs, usages and other sources of commercial contract law in German and other representative codes
Part IV. Familistic and socialist variants of the civil law
14. Latin American codification and its all-important colonial background
15. Soviet commercial contract law
16. The peculiar meaning of Soviet and post-Soviet commercial contracts: an invertebrate legal system
17. Chinese imperial, mostly living-law of contracts
18. Contracts and litigation in imperial and Mao's China
19. Contemporary land contracts, third parties and judicial law making
Part V. Anglo-American law
20. Socio-economic and legal contexts and English commercial contracts
21. The socio-economic and legal contexts of U.S. commercial contracts
Part VI. Formation, interpretation and adjudication of contractual and customary law disputes
22. Formation of contracts: ceremony or conduct?
23. Two guiding principles for the interpretation of commercial contracts: good faith and reasonableness
24. Drafting commercial practices and the growth of commercial contract law
25. Brief overview of commercial trial procedure
26. Pre-contractual liability: culpa in contrahendo
27. Excuses for non-performance of contracts
28. Extrajudicial remedies and the remedy of specific performance
29. Judicial and extrajudicial termination
30. Damages for breach of warranty in U.S. economic analysis influenced law.