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Contract as assumption : essays on a theme / by Brian Coote ; edited and with a preface by Rick Bigwood
Contract as assumption : essays on a theme / by Brian Coote ; edited and with a preface by Rick Bigwood
Autore Coote Brian
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford ; Portland, Oregon, : Hart Publishing, 2010
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (246 p.)
Disciplina 346.02
Soggetto topico Contracts - Philosophy
Obligations (Law)
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-84731-749-9
1-4725-6073-6
1-282-80652-1
9786612806520
1-84731-578-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto ; Introduction -- The essence of contract -- Consideration and benefit in fact and law -- Consideration and the variation of contracts : a different solution -- Consideration and the joint promisee -- The function of exception clauses -- The second rise and fall of fundamental breach -- Contract damages, Ruxley, and the performance interest -- The performance interest, Panatown, and the problem of loss -- Contract not trust : some questions about the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act from another perspective -- Assumption of responsibility and pure economic loss in New Zealand
1. Introduction -- 2. The Essence of Contract -- Introduction -- Textbook Definitions -- Contract Theories -- The Secret Paradox -- The Failure of Traditional Contract Theories -- The Reaction Against Classical Concepts of Contract -- The Need for a More Inclusive Theory -- A Suggested Solution to the 'Secret Paradox' -- The Essence of a Contract -- Some Consequences -- The Contemporary Near-Contracts -- Conclusion -- 3. Consideration and Benefit in Fact and in Law -- The Facts -- The Judgment -- The Meaning of the Decision -- An Explanation for the Decision -- Bilateral Contracts -- Unilateral Contracts -- Conclusion -- 4. Consideration and the Variation of Contracts: A Different Solution -- 5. Consideration and the Joint Promisee -- The Arguments for the Joint Promisee Principle -- Two Fallacies -- Joint Promisee as Promisor -- Unilateral Contracts -- Conclusion -- Addendum -- 6. The Function of Exception Clauses -- The Current Approach -- Are Exception Clauses Substantive or Procedural In Their Effect? -- Can the Parties to a Contract Create Rights Intended by Them to be Unenforceable? -- A Different Approach Suggested -- A Suggested Classification of Exception Clauses -- The Interpretation of Exception Clauses In Relation to Their Function -- Some Special Consequences of the Exception Form -- Conclusions -- Addendum -- 7. The Second Rise and Fall of Fundamental Breach -- Discharge for Breach and Deviation Distinguished -- The Function of Exception Clauses -- The Suisse Atlantique Case -- The Second Version of Fundamental Breach -- The Securicor Case -- The Significance of Securicor for the Future -- Conclusion -- 8. Contract Damages, Ruxley, and the Performance Interest -- The Ruxley case -- A Basic Ambiguity in Contract Damages -- Damages as Protection of the Performance Interest -- Other Protections of the Performance Interest -- Extending the Potential Inclusiveness of Performance Protection -- The Compensation Principle -- Reinstatement and Repair: Building Contracts -- Difference in Value in Building Cases -- Three Questions -- The Place of General Damages -- Summary and Conclusions -- Addendum: Two Recent Cases -- 9. The Performance Interest, Panatown, and the Problem of Loss -- The Arguments -- The Problem of Characterisation -- The Narrow Ground -- The Albazero Exception -- The Broad Ground -- Who Suffered the Loss? -- The Position Where Both Have Suffered Loss -- Conclusion -- 10. Contract not Trust: Some Questions About the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act from Another Perspective -- Contract or Not? -- A New Form of Contract? -- The Availability of Equitable Remedies -- Failure of Consideration -- Defences Available to the Promisee -- Conclusion -- 11. Assumption of Responsibility and Pure Economic Loss in New Zealand -- Assumption of Legal Liability in Tort -- Assumption of Non-Tort Obligation -- Assumption of a Task -- Conclusion
Record Nr. UNINA-9910459056303321
Coote Brian  
Oxford ; Portland, Oregon, : Hart Publishing, 2010
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Contract as assumption : essays on a theme / by Brian Coote ; edited and with a preface by Rick Bigwood
Contract as assumption : essays on a theme / by Brian Coote ; edited and with a preface by Rick Bigwood
Autore Coote Brian
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford ; Portland, Oregon, : Hart Publishing, 2010
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (246 p.)
Disciplina 346.02
Soggetto topico Contracts - Philosophy
Obligations (Law)
ISBN 1-84731-749-9
1-4725-6073-6
1-282-80652-1
9786612806520
1-84731-578-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto ; Introduction -- The essence of contract -- Consideration and benefit in fact and law -- Consideration and the variation of contracts : a different solution -- Consideration and the joint promisee -- The function of exception clauses -- The second rise and fall of fundamental breach -- Contract damages, Ruxley, and the performance interest -- The performance interest, Panatown, and the problem of loss -- Contract not trust : some questions about the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act from another perspective -- Assumption of responsibility and pure economic loss in New Zealand
1. Introduction -- 2. The Essence of Contract -- Introduction -- Textbook Definitions -- Contract Theories -- The Secret Paradox -- The Failure of Traditional Contract Theories -- The Reaction Against Classical Concepts of Contract -- The Need for a More Inclusive Theory -- A Suggested Solution to the 'Secret Paradox' -- The Essence of a Contract -- Some Consequences -- The Contemporary Near-Contracts -- Conclusion -- 3. Consideration and Benefit in Fact and in Law -- The Facts -- The Judgment -- The Meaning of the Decision -- An Explanation for the Decision -- Bilateral Contracts -- Unilateral Contracts -- Conclusion -- 4. Consideration and the Variation of Contracts: A Different Solution -- 5. Consideration and the Joint Promisee -- The Arguments for the Joint Promisee Principle -- Two Fallacies -- Joint Promisee as Promisor -- Unilateral Contracts -- Conclusion -- Addendum -- 6. The Function of Exception Clauses -- The Current Approach -- Are Exception Clauses Substantive or Procedural In Their Effect? -- Can the Parties to a Contract Create Rights Intended by Them to be Unenforceable? -- A Different Approach Suggested -- A Suggested Classification of Exception Clauses -- The Interpretation of Exception Clauses In Relation to Their Function -- Some Special Consequences of the Exception Form -- Conclusions -- Addendum -- 7. The Second Rise and Fall of Fundamental Breach -- Discharge for Breach and Deviation Distinguished -- The Function of Exception Clauses -- The Suisse Atlantique Case -- The Second Version of Fundamental Breach -- The Securicor Case -- The Significance of Securicor for the Future -- Conclusion -- 8. Contract Damages, Ruxley, and the Performance Interest -- The Ruxley case -- A Basic Ambiguity in Contract Damages -- Damages as Protection of the Performance Interest -- Other Protections of the Performance Interest -- Extending the Potential Inclusiveness of Performance Protection -- The Compensation Principle -- Reinstatement and Repair: Building Contracts -- Difference in Value in Building Cases -- Three Questions -- The Place of General Damages -- Summary and Conclusions -- Addendum: Two Recent Cases -- 9. The Performance Interest, Panatown, and the Problem of Loss -- The Arguments -- The Problem of Characterisation -- The Narrow Ground -- The Albazero Exception -- The Broad Ground -- Who Suffered the Loss? -- The Position Where Both Have Suffered Loss -- Conclusion -- 10. Contract not Trust: Some Questions About the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act from Another Perspective -- Contract or Not? -- A New Form of Contract? -- The Availability of Equitable Remedies -- Failure of Consideration -- Defences Available to the Promisee -- Conclusion -- 11. Assumption of Responsibility and Pure Economic Loss in New Zealand -- Assumption of Legal Liability in Tort -- Assumption of Non-Tort Obligation -- Assumption of a Task -- Conclusion
Record Nr. UNINA-9910785113003321
Coote Brian  
Oxford ; Portland, Oregon, : Hart Publishing, 2010
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Contract as assumption : essays on a theme / by Brian Coote ; edited and with a preface by Rick Bigwood
Contract as assumption : essays on a theme / by Brian Coote ; edited and with a preface by Rick Bigwood
Autore Coote Brian
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford ; Portland, Oregon, : Hart Publishing, 2010
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (246 p.)
Disciplina 346.02
Soggetto topico Contracts - Philosophy
Obligations (Law)
ISBN 1-84731-749-9
1-4725-6073-6
1-282-80652-1
9786612806520
1-84731-578-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto ; Introduction -- The essence of contract -- Consideration and benefit in fact and law -- Consideration and the variation of contracts : a different solution -- Consideration and the joint promisee -- The function of exception clauses -- The second rise and fall of fundamental breach -- Contract damages, Ruxley, and the performance interest -- The performance interest, Panatown, and the problem of loss -- Contract not trust : some questions about the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act from another perspective -- Assumption of responsibility and pure economic loss in New Zealand
1. Introduction -- 2. The Essence of Contract -- Introduction -- Textbook Definitions -- Contract Theories -- The Secret Paradox -- The Failure of Traditional Contract Theories -- The Reaction Against Classical Concepts of Contract -- The Need for a More Inclusive Theory -- A Suggested Solution to the 'Secret Paradox' -- The Essence of a Contract -- Some Consequences -- The Contemporary Near-Contracts -- Conclusion -- 3. Consideration and Benefit in Fact and in Law -- The Facts -- The Judgment -- The Meaning of the Decision -- An Explanation for the Decision -- Bilateral Contracts -- Unilateral Contracts -- Conclusion -- 4. Consideration and the Variation of Contracts: A Different Solution -- 5. Consideration and the Joint Promisee -- The Arguments for the Joint Promisee Principle -- Two Fallacies -- Joint Promisee as Promisor -- Unilateral Contracts -- Conclusion -- Addendum -- 6. The Function of Exception Clauses -- The Current Approach -- Are Exception Clauses Substantive or Procedural In Their Effect? -- Can the Parties to a Contract Create Rights Intended by Them to be Unenforceable? -- A Different Approach Suggested -- A Suggested Classification of Exception Clauses -- The Interpretation of Exception Clauses In Relation to Their Function -- Some Special Consequences of the Exception Form -- Conclusions -- Addendum -- 7. The Second Rise and Fall of Fundamental Breach -- Discharge for Breach and Deviation Distinguished -- The Function of Exception Clauses -- The Suisse Atlantique Case -- The Second Version of Fundamental Breach -- The Securicor Case -- The Significance of Securicor for the Future -- Conclusion -- 8. Contract Damages, Ruxley, and the Performance Interest -- The Ruxley case -- A Basic Ambiguity in Contract Damages -- Damages as Protection of the Performance Interest -- Other Protections of the Performance Interest -- Extending the Potential Inclusiveness of Performance Protection -- The Compensation Principle -- Reinstatement and Repair: Building Contracts -- Difference in Value in Building Cases -- Three Questions -- The Place of General Damages -- Summary and Conclusions -- Addendum: Two Recent Cases -- 9. The Performance Interest, Panatown, and the Problem of Loss -- The Arguments -- The Problem of Characterisation -- The Narrow Ground -- The Albazero Exception -- The Broad Ground -- Who Suffered the Loss? -- The Position Where Both Have Suffered Loss -- Conclusion -- 10. Contract not Trust: Some Questions About the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act from Another Perspective -- Contract or Not? -- A New Form of Contract? -- The Availability of Equitable Remedies -- Failure of Consideration -- Defences Available to the Promisee -- Conclusion -- 11. Assumption of Responsibility and Pure Economic Loss in New Zealand -- Assumption of Legal Liability in Tort -- Assumption of Non-Tort Obligation -- Assumption of a Task -- Conclusion
Record Nr. UNINA-9910819190303321
Coote Brian  
Oxford ; Portland, Oregon, : Hart Publishing, 2010
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Contract law minimalism : a formalist restatement of commercial contract law / / Jonathan Morgan, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge [[electronic resource]]
Contract law minimalism : a formalist restatement of commercial contract law / / Jonathan Morgan, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge [[electronic resource]]
Autore Morgan Jonathan (Jonathan Edward)
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xxiii, 289 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina 346.02/2
Collana Law in context
Soggetto topico Contracts
Commercial law
Contracts - Philosophy
ISBN 1-107-46073-5
1-139-89087-5
1-107-45901-X
1-107-47190-7
1-107-46480-3
1-107-46827-2
1-139-10817-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Does instrumentalism "fit" contract law? -- Justifying the instrumental approach -- Critique of neoclassical law and economics -- Relational contracting : trust, business, and law -- Extra-legal norms : the irrelevance of the law (of contract)? -- Defining contract law minimalism, or the "new formalism" -- Against regulation through contract law -- The limited capacity of contract law -- What business wants : evidence from the "markets for law" -- A formalist restatement of commercial contract law.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910462905803321
Morgan Jonathan (Jonathan Edward)  
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Contract law minimalism : a formalist restatement of commercial contract law / / Jonathan Morgan, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge [[electronic resource]]
Contract law minimalism : a formalist restatement of commercial contract law / / Jonathan Morgan, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge [[electronic resource]]
Autore Morgan Jonathan (Jonathan Edward)
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xxiii, 289 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina 346.02/2
Collana Law in context
Soggetto topico Contracts
Commercial law
Contracts - Philosophy
ISBN 1-107-46073-5
1-139-89087-5
1-107-45901-X
1-107-47190-7
1-107-46480-3
1-107-46827-2
1-139-10817-4
Classificazione LAW021000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Does instrumentalism "fit" contract law? -- Justifying the instrumental approach -- Critique of neoclassical law and economics -- Relational contracting : trust, business, and law -- Extra-legal norms : the irrelevance of the law (of contract)? -- Defining contract law minimalism, or the "new formalism" -- Against regulation through contract law -- The limited capacity of contract law -- What business wants : evidence from the "markets for law" -- A formalist restatement of commercial contract law.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910787767903321
Morgan Jonathan (Jonathan Edward)  
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Contract law minimalism : a formalist restatement of commercial contract law / / Jonathan Morgan, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge [[electronic resource]]
Contract law minimalism : a formalist restatement of commercial contract law / / Jonathan Morgan, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge [[electronic resource]]
Autore Morgan Jonathan (Jonathan Edward)
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xxiii, 289 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina 346.02/2
Collana Law in context
Soggetto topico Contracts
Commercial law
Contracts - Philosophy
ISBN 1-107-46073-5
1-139-89087-5
1-107-45901-X
1-107-47190-7
1-107-46480-3
1-107-46827-2
1-139-10817-4
Classificazione LAW021000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Does instrumentalism "fit" contract law? -- Justifying the instrumental approach -- Critique of neoclassical law and economics -- Relational contracting : trust, business, and law -- Extra-legal norms : the irrelevance of the law (of contract)? -- Defining contract law minimalism, or the "new formalism" -- Against regulation through contract law -- The limited capacity of contract law -- What business wants : evidence from the "markets for law" -- A formalist restatement of commercial contract law.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910811843903321
Morgan Jonathan (Jonathan Edward)  
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Contractual renegotiations and international investment arbitration : a relational contract theory interpretation of investment treaties / / by Aikaterini Florou
Contractual renegotiations and international investment arbitration : a relational contract theory interpretation of investment treaties / / by Aikaterini Florou
Autore Florou Aikaterini
Pubbl/distr/stampa Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill Nijhoff, , [2020]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource
Disciplina 346.092
Collana Nijhoff International Investment Law Series
Soggetto topico Investments, Foreign (International law)
International commercial arbitration
Contracts - Philosophy
Soggetto non controllato Relational contract theory
ISBN 90-04-40747-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Introduction - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly? -- Concession Contracts as Relational Contracts -- The Relationship between Concession Contracts and Investment -- Treaties -- Case Law Review -- Conclusions -- Appendix : Categorization of ISDS Cases along the Contract-Theory Interpretative Spectrum
Record Nr. UNINA-9910793918503321
Florou Aikaterini  
Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill Nijhoff, , [2020]
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Contractual renegotiations and international investment arbitration : a relational contract theory interpretation of investment treaties / / by Aikaterini Florou
Contractual renegotiations and international investment arbitration : a relational contract theory interpretation of investment treaties / / by Aikaterini Florou
Autore Florou Aikaterini
Pubbl/distr/stampa Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill Nijhoff, , [2020]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource
Disciplina 346.092
Collana Nijhoff International Investment Law Series
Soggetto topico Investments, Foreign (International law)
International commercial arbitration
Contracts - Philosophy
Soggetto non controllato Relational contract theory
ISBN 90-04-40747-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Introduction - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly? -- Concession Contracts as Relational Contracts -- The Relationship between Concession Contracts and Investment -- Treaties -- Case Law Review -- Conclusions -- Appendix : Categorization of ISDS Cases along the Contract-Theory Interpretative Spectrum
Record Nr. UNINA-9910819511903321
Florou Aikaterini  
Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill Nijhoff, , [2020]
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
From promise to contract : towards a liberal theory of contract / / Dori Kimel
From promise to contract : towards a liberal theory of contract / / Dori Kimel
Autore Kimel Dori
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford [England] ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2003
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (160 p.)
Disciplina 346.02
346.4102
Soggetto topico Contracts - Philosophy
Promise (Law) - Philosophy
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-4725-6272-0
1-280-80817-9
9786610808175
1-84731-076-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. On the Nature and Value of Promise -- 2. Normativity, Trust and Threats -- 3. The Nature and Value of Contractual Relations -- 4. Remedies -- 5. Freedom of Contract, Freedom from Contract -- Bibliography -- Index.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910451161203321
Kimel Dori  
Oxford [England] ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2003
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
From promise to contract : towards a liberal theory of contract / / Dori Kimel
From promise to contract : towards a liberal theory of contract / / Dori Kimel
Autore Kimel Dori
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford [England] ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2003
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (160 p.)
Disciplina 346.02
346.4102
Soggetto topico Contracts - Philosophy
Promise (Law) - Philosophy
ISBN 1-4725-6272-0
1-280-80817-9
9786610808175
1-84731-076-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. On the Nature and Value of Promise -- 2. Normativity, Trust and Threats -- 3. The Nature and Value of Contractual Relations -- 4. Remedies -- 5. Freedom of Contract, Freedom from Contract -- Bibliography -- Index.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910784258603321
Kimel Dori  
Oxford [England] ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2003
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui