Contract as promise : a theory of contractual obligation / Charles Fried.
2015
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Title
Contract as promise : a theory of contractual obligation / Charles Fried.
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Call Number
K840 .F74 2015
Edition
Second edition.
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ISBN
9780190240158 (hardback : alk. paper)
0190240156 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780190240165 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0190240164 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0190240156 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780190240165 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0190240164 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xiv, 202 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)892305012
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-193) and index.
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Contract as promise (NL-LeOCL)39507567X
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Table of Contents
Preface to the First Edition
ix
Preface to the Second Edition
xi
1.
Introduction: The Life of Contract
1
2.
Contract as Promise
7
Promise
7
The Moral Obligation of Promise
14
What a Promise is Worth
17
Remedies in and around the Promise
21
3.
Consideration
28
4.
Answering a Promise: Offer and Acceptance
40
Promises and Vows
41
Acceptance and the Law of Third-Party Beneficiaries
44
The Simple Circuitry of Offer and Acceptance
45
Rejections, Counteroffers, Contracts at a Distance, Crossed Offers
49
Reliance on an Offer
54
5.
Gaps
57
Mistake, Frustration, and Impossibility
58
Letting the Loss Lie Where it Falls
64
Parallels with General Legal Theory: An Excursion
67
Filling the Gaps
69
6.
Good Faith
74
"Honesty in Fact"
77
Good Faith in Performance
85
7.
Duress and Unconscionability
92
Duress
93
Coercion and Rights
95
Property
99
Hard Bargains
103
Unconscionability, Economic Duress, and Social Justice
103
Bad Samaritans
109
8.
The Importance of Being Right
112
You Can Always Get Your Money Back
113
Conditions
118
Waivers, Forfeitures, Repudiations
123
Contract as Promise in the Light of Subsequent Scholarship---Especially Law and Economics
133
Notes
162
Index
195