Contract Law, 9th edition

Author: Ewan McKendrick
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230285699
Published In: June 2011
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 ninth edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect recent changes in the law and is presented with an enhanced page design. It is essential reading for all students taking undergraduate and GDL/CPE courses in contract law.

Introduction

PART I: THE FORMATION AND SCOPE OF A CONTRACT

Agreement: Clearing the Ground
Offer and Acceptance
Certainty and Agreement Mistakes
Consideration and Form
Intention to Create Legal Relations
Third Party Rights

PART II: THE CONTENT OF A CONTRACT

What is a Term?
The Source of Contractual Terms
The Classification of Contractual Terms
Exclusion Clauses

PART III: POLICING THE CONTRACT

A Duty to Disclose Material Facts?
Misrepresentation
Common Mistake and Frustration
Illegality
Capacity
Duress, Undue Influence and Inequality of Bargaining Power
PART IV: PERFORMANCE, DISCHARGE AND REMEDIES FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT
Performance and Discharge of the Contract
Breach of Contract
Damages for Breach of Contract
Obtaining an Adequate Remedy

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 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 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