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Author
Title
Law of obligations / Geoffrey Samuel.
Published
Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Call Number
K830 .S37 2010
ISBN
9781848447646 (hbk.)
1848447647 (hbk.)
1848447647 (hbk.)
Description
xxxix, 358 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)455824857
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-340) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
x
List of abbreviations
xii
Introductory remarks
xiii
List of cases
xvii
List of statutes and texts
xxxiv
1.
Theory and method: background to the law of obligations
1
The epistemological dilemma
1
Institutional plan
2
Codes and method
3
English legal mentality
4
Institutional system and the common law
8
2.
History and structure of the law of obligations
10
Real and personal remedies and rights
10
Divisions and subdivisions of private law
12
Public law
14
Contract
15
Delict
18
Quasi delict (and liability without fault)
21
Quasi-contract (and unjust enrichment)
23
Alternative approaches
25
3.
General theory of obligations
27
Formation of an obligation
27
Content of an obligation
29
Content and rescission
31
Level of obligational duty
32
Obligations and the role of fault
33
Debt and damages actions
36
Extra-contractual liability
38
Obligations as rights
40
Abuse of rights
41
Obligations as property
44
Transfer of obligation rights
46
Extinction of an obligation
46
4.
Obligations and the common law
48
Personal actions at common law (forms of action)
48
Causes of action
51
Contract and tort
53
Restitution (unjust enrichment)
55
Remedies
57
Injunctions
59
Specific performance in equity
60
Damages
61
Debt and account
63
Restitutionary interest
65
Rescission
66
5.
Contractual obligations: general provisions
69
General considerations
69
Definition of contract
70
Contract and remedies
73
Contract and rights
77
Classification of contracts
78
Bailment and contract
82
Public and private law contracts
83
Commercial and consumer contracts
84
Freedom of contract
85
Good faith
86
Domain of contract
88
6.
Enforcing contracts
90
Contract and methodology
90
Formation models
93
Cause (causa)
94
Agreement (conventio)
94
Promise (promissio)
95
Promise and agreement
97
Enforceable promises
99
Difficult cases
101
Absence of clarity
104
Absence of consensus
105
Intention to create legal relations
106
Revocation of an offer
107
Acceptance
108
Consideration
110
Variation of existing contracts
112
Consideration and third parties
114
Deed of covenant
116
7.
Escaping from contracts
117
Defective contracts
117
Defective contracts and remedies
120
Implied condition
122
European approach
123
Property problems
123
Fraud and duress
125
Capacity
128
Illegality
129
Cancelled contracts
131
Non-performance of a contract
132
8.
Unperformed contracts and appropriate remedies
133
Interpretation and liability
133
Differences of approach
135
Terms
136
Conditions and warranites
137
Implied terms
139
Unfair terms
141
Performance and non-performance of the contract
142
Onerous performance
144
Non-performance and exclusion clauses
145
Performance and third parties
148
Non-performance and termination
149
Non-performance and agreement
150
9.
Tortious obligations: general provisions
152
Civilian approach
152
English approach
154
Definitional considerations
156
Purpose and policy of tort
158
Actions for damages
159
Aims of the law of tort
160
Tort and methodology
163
Policy and functionalism
166
Interests and rights
168
Axiology and argumentation
169
Statutory interpretation
170
Methodology: concluding remarks
172
10.
Liability and intentional harm
174
Liability and fault
174
Liability for individual acts: general elements
176
Intentional harm
179
Intentional torts
181
Intentional torts and methodology
191
11.
Liability for unintentional harm
193
Tort of negligence
193
Breach of duty
194
Duty of care
197
Extension of duty of care
200
Methodological approach to duty
201
Economic loss
203
Psychological damage (nervous shock)
206
Omissions
209
Public bodies
210
Human rights
212
Comparative reflections
213
Unlawful acts
216
12.
Liability for things
219
Liability for moveable things
219
Dangerous products
220
Defective equipment
222
Animals
223
Motor vehicles
224
Aircraft
225
Land and buildings: harm on the premises
225
Land and buildings: harm off the premises
229
Liability for dangerous things
234
Occupier's liability: methodological considerations
236
13.
Liability for people
239
Vicarious liability
239
Theory of vicarious liability
242
Non-delegable duty
244
Owners of motor vehicles
247
Publishers
248
14.
Liability for words
249
Deceit and negligence
249
Defamation
251
Beyond defamation
253
Intellectual property rights
255
Privacy
256
Professional liability
258
15.
Escaping liability
263
Causation: introduction
263
Theories of causation
265
Level 1: actionability
269
Level 2: cause in fact
272
Loss of a chance
273
Overlapping causes and overlapping damage
278
Novus actus interveniens
280
Level 3: remoteness of damage
283
Untypical damage
287
Level 4: causation and remedies
288
Measure of damages
290
16.
Beyond contract and tort: restitution
295
Liability for gain
295
Enrichment
297
Expense of another
299
'Unjust' (sans cause)
300
Remedies and unjust enrichment
301
Equitable remedies
305
Tracing
307
Present status of restitution
309
17.
Transnational law of obligations?
312
Possibility of harmonisation
313
Harmonisation through science and system
314
Harmonisation through casuistic methods
318
Obstacles to harmonisation
322
Role of comparative law
325
Obligations and property
327
Spirit of non-codification
330
Conclusion: abandoning the obligations category
331
Bibliography
334
Index
341