Contract Law

Chitty on Contracts, 31st edition: Volume 1 (General Principles) & Volume 2 (Specific Contracts) (Mainworks + 2nd Supplement)

By Hugh Beale
Sweet & Maxwell U.K. November 2014

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780414032835
Publisher
Sweet & Maxwell U.K.
Publication
November 2014
Format
Hardback (2 volumes) + Paperback
Jurisdiction
Commonwealth, U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Chitty is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of common law contract law, written by acknowledged experts in each of the fields covered by the work. 

It is intended as a first port of call for research by both solicitors in drafting contracts, and for barristers in preparing cases based around contractual disputes, across the whole range of contract law. Its content is often sufficient as such and practitioners need look no further, but its coverage can be supplemented by further research in works that treat specific aspects of contract law more fully.

The work is in two volumes. Volume One covers the general principles of contract law, whilst Volume Two offers guidance on contractual issues in specific industry sectors.

  • Provides coverage of all relevant legislation and a huge depth of case reference
  • Presents complete coverage of the law of contract, incorporating extensive reference to relevant legislation and recent case law
  • Contains interpretation and analysis of general legislation since the last edition
  • Provides an in-depth examination of actions arising in contract law, including exclusion clauses, estoppel, illegality and public policy, mistake, misrepresentation and non-disclosure, breach of performance
  • Deals individually with contracts in the following areas of law: agency, arbitration, bailment, bills of exchange and banking, building contracts, carriage by air, carriage by land, construction, credit and security, employment, gaming and wagering, insurance, restrictive agreements and covenants, sale of goods and suretyship
  • Offers interpretation and advice on the law when disputes arise, or when technical areas need clarification, and when responsibilities, obligations and entitlements need to be established
  • Supplemented regularly
  • Used widely as the source of information on contract law

Table of Contents

VOLUME I


1. Introductory

PART ONE - FORMATION OF CONTRACT
2. The Agreement
3. Consideration
4. Form
5. Mistake
6. Misrepresentation
7. Duress and Undue Influence

PART TWO - CAPACITY  OF PARTIES
8. Personal Incapacity
9. Corporation and Unincorporated Associations
10. The Crown, Public Authorities and the European Community
11. Political and Professional Immunity and Incapacity

PART THREE - THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT
12. Express Terms
13. Implied Terms
14. Exemption Clauses
15. Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts

PART FOUR - ILLEGALITY AND PUBLIC POLICY
16. Illegality and Public Policy

PART FIVE - JOINT OBLIGATIONS, THIRD PARTIES AND ASSIGNMENT
17. Joint Obligations
18. Third Parties
19. Assignment
20. Death and Bankruptcy

PART SIX - PERFORMANCE AND DISCHARGE
21. Performance
22. Discharge by Agreement
23. Discharge by Frustration
24. Discharge by Breach
25. Other modes of discharge

PART SEVEN - REMEDIES FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT
26. Damages
27. Specific Performance and Injunction
28. Limitation of Actions

PART EIGHT - RESTITUTION
29. Restitution

PART NINE - CONFLICT OF LAWS
30. Conflict of Laws

VOLUME II

31. Agency
32. Arbitration
33. Bailment
34. Bills of Exchange and Banking
35. Carriage by Air
36. Carriage by Land
37. Construction Contracts
38. Credit and Security
39. Employment
40. Gaming and Wagering
41. Insurance
42. Restrictive Agreements and Competition
43. Sale of Goods
44. Suretyship

About the Author

Hugh Beale QC (Hon) 
Hon Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn, Professor of Law, University of Warwick

Andrew Burrows QC (Hon) 
Hon Bencher of Middle Temple, Fellow of All Souls and Professor of English Law at Oxford University

Mark Freedland 
Bencher of Gray’s Inn, Professor of Employment Law at the University of Oxford, Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford

Anthony Guest CBE, QC 
Bencher of Gray’s Inn, Formerly Professor of English Law at Kings College, London

Richard Hooley 
Barrister of Middle Temple, Professor of Law at Kings College, Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

David McClean CBE, QC (Hon) 
Bencher of Gray’s Inn, Professor of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Sheffield

Peter MacDonald Eggers QC  
Middle Temple; Visiting Lecturer, University College London , Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales

Ewan McKendrick 
Bencher of Gray’s Inn, Registrar and Professor of English Private Law at the University of Oxford

Paul Mitchell 
Professor of Laws, University College London

Vince Moran QC 
Gray’s Inn

CGJ Morse 
Barrister of Middle Temple; Professor of Law, Kings College, London

Dan Prentice 
Barrister, Lincoln’s Inn; Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College and Former Allen and Overy Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Oxford

Francis Reynolds 
Hon Bencher of Inner Temple, Emeritus Fellow of Worcester College and Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Oxford

Sir Guenter Treitel QC 
Hon Bencher of Gray’s Inn, Formerly Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford

John Uff CBE QC
Bencher of Gray’s Inn, Emeritus  Professor of Engineering Law, King’s College, London

Graham Virgo 
Barrister of Lincoln’s Inn, Professor of English law and and Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge

Richard Whish 
Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature; Professor of Law at the University of London

Simon Whittaker 
Barrister; Fellow of St John’s College and Professor of European Private Law at the  University  of Oxford

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