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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784263703321

Autore

Griffiths Andrew

Titolo

Contracting with companies / Andrew Griffiths

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; Portland, Oregon, : Hart Publishing, 2005

ISBN

1-4725-5972-X

1-280-80108-5

9786610801084

1-84731-222-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Collana

Contemporary studies in corporate law

Disciplina

346.4202

Soggetti

Contracts - England

Contracts - Wales

Commercial law - England

Commercial law - Wales

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di contenuto

1 Attribution and Risk Assignment: An Introduction to the Legal and Economic Dimensions of Contracting with Companies -- 2 Assigning Risk: An Economic Perspective on the Law Governing Contracting with Companies -- 3 The Power to Make Contracts for a Company -- 4 Issues of Identity and Existence -- 5 Contracting with the Board -- 6 Contracting with Other Corporate Agents -- 7 Contracts Involving Self-Dealing

Sommario/riassunto

This book surveys the main rules of Company Law governing the making of contracts with companies. It adopts an economic perspective, examining these rules in terms of the risks they apportion between companies and parties contracting with them. It reviews the use that has been made of economics in the analysis of Company Law and considers what guidance this can provide in analysing corporate contracting. The book then examines the relevant law and the issues raised by this law, covering the role of corporate constitutions as the source of the authority of corporate agents, the mechanisms of corporate activity and decision-making, the identification of corporate contracting parties, pre-incorporation contracts and other contracts



with non-existent companies, the contractual power of a company's board, the protection of parties dealing with subordinate corporate agents and the regulation of contracts in which a director has a conflict of interest