Contract Law, 10th Edition

Author: Ewan McKendrick
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan_
ISBN: 9781137293701
Published In: July 2013
Format: Paperback , 432 pages
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The Palgrave Macmillan Law Masters series is a long-running and successful list of titles offering clear, concise and authoritative guides to the main subject areas, written by experienced and respected authors.

This best-selling, classic text provides a clear and straightforward account of the basic rules of contract law, while also introducing current debates about the nature, scope and functions of the law and discussing wider controversies surrounding the basic doctrines. Praised time and again by both lecturers and students, Contract Law is compact yet comprehensive, well-written, well-structured, stimulating and engaging.

This new tenth edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect recent changes in the law. It is essential reading for all students taking undergraduate and GDL/CPE courses in contract law.

Ewan McKendrick is Registrar and Professor of English Private Law in the University of Oxford, where he is also a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. He is the author of a number of key works on contract law and commercial law, and is an editor of Chitty on Contracts. He is also a barrister in practice with a leading set of commercial chambers in London.

Introduction
PART I: THE FORMATION AND SCOPE OF A CONTRACT
1. Agreement: Clearing the Ground
2. Offer and Acceptance
3. Certainty and Agreement Mistakes
4. Consideration and Form
5. Intention to Create Legal Relations
6. Third Party Rights
PART II: THE CONTENT OF A CONTRACT
7. What is a Term?
8. The Sources of Contractual Terms
9. The Classification of Contractual Terms
10. Exclusion Clauses
PART III: POLICING THE CONTRACT
11. A Duty to Disclose Material Facts?
12. Misrepresentation
13. Common Mistake and Frustration
14. Illegality
15. Capacity
16. Duress, Undue Influence and Inequality of Bargaining Power
PART IV: PERFORMANCE, DISCHARGE AND REMEDIES FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT
17. Performance and Discharge of the Contract
18. Breach of Contract
19. Damages for Breach of Contract
20. Obtaining an Adequate Remedy

Ewan McKendrick is Registrar and Professor of English Private Law in the University of Oxford, UK where he is also a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. He is the author of a number of key works on contract law and commercial law, and is an editor of Chitty on Contracts. He is also a barrister in practice at 3 Verulam Buildings, Gray's Inn and a Master of the Bench of Gray's Inn.

"This is a masterly introduction to the English law of contract being lucid and succinct, accurate and incisive. Every student of the subject will benefit from reading it." - Andrew Burrows, Professor of the Law of England, All Souls College, Oxford, UK and author of A Casebook on Contract

"This remains the best book of its kind on English contract law." - Hector MacQueen, Scottish Law Commissioner and Professor of Private Law, University of Edinburgh, UK