Contracts:transactions and litigation

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kuney George W.
Group Author: Lloyd Robert M.; (Robert Michael), 1945-
Published: Thomson/West,
Publisher Address: St. Paul, MN
Publication Dates: c2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: American casebook series
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Carrier Form: xliv, 837 p.: ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 9780314194558
031419455X
9780314194541 (pbk. : alk. paper ; teacher's manual)
0314194541 (pbk. : alk. paper ; teacher's manual)
Index Number: D971
CLC: D971.23
Call Number: D971.23/K964/2nd.ed.
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
The objective theory of contracts: standards, elements, and factors -- Has an offer been made? -- Has the offer been accepted? -- Has the offer terminated? -- Consideration: the bargain requirement -- Quasi-contracts -- Pre-existing duty and past consideration -- Promissory estoppel -- Mistake -- Misrepresentation and fraud -- Duress -- Unconscionability -- The statute of frauds -- The parol evidence rule -- Interpretation of contracts -- Principles of contract damages -- Limitations on contract damages --Other measures of recovery and a review of damages part -- Liquidated damages -- Specific performance -- Express conditions -- Constructive conditions -- Anticipatory repudiation -- Impracticability and frustration -- Good faith -- Non-party rights: assignment, delegation, novation, and third party beneficiaries.