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Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Table of cases; Table of statutes; Table of statutory instruments; 1 Guidance on reading cases; SECTION 1 A guiding principle; SECTION 2 Useful notes; SECTION 3 The basics of reading a case; A) Decide which case or cases to read; B) Use the citation to find the report of the case; C) Note the full case name and court; D) Presentation of case reports; SECTION 4 Reading a case in practice; A) Catchwords; B) Facts; C) Decision; D) Note the facts; E) The decision at first instance; F) The decision of the Court of Appeal; G) The judgments.

H) Notes on the decision and the judgmentsI) General notes on the legal principles in the case; 2 Agreement; SECTION 1 Subjectivity versus objectivity; A) Objectivity prevails; B) Subjectivity has some relevance; SECTION 2 The criteria to determine agreement; SECTION 3 Offer distinguished from invitation to treat; A) Advertisements; B) Display of goods; C) Tenders; D) Auction sales; SECTION 4 Acceptance; A) The mirror image rule; B) The offeror prescribes the method of acceptance; C) Acceptance must be made in response to the offer; D) Communication of the acceptance to the offeror.

SECTION 5 Revocation of an offerA) Communication of the revocation; B) Revocation of a unilateral offer; C) Communication of revocation of unilateral offers; 3 Agreement problems; SECTION 1 Certainty; A) Vagueness; B) Severing a meaningless clause; C) Incompleteness; D) Conclusion of 'no contract' and payment for performance; SECTION 2 Agreement mistakes; A) Mutual mistake; B) Unilateral mistake; C) Unilateral mistake as to identity; SECTION 3 Document mistakes; A) Rectification; B) The plea of non est factum; 4 Enforceability of promises: consideration and promissory estoppel.

SECTION 1 ConsiderationA) What is consideration?; B) Consideration distinguished from a condition imposed on recipients of gifts; C) Consideration must be sufficient, but need not be adequate; D) Part payment of a debt; SECTION 2 Promissory estoppel; A) Origins of the doctrine; B) When will the doctrine operate and in what way?; C) How far can the doctrine be extended?; 5 Intention to be legally bound and capacity to contract; SECTION 1 Intention to be legally bound; A) Domestic and social agreements; B) Commercial agreements; C) A different approach?

SECTION 2 Capacity to contract-minors' contractsA) Contracts for necessaries; B) Beneficial contracts of service; C) Contracts involving continuing obligations and the ability to repudiate during minority; D) Restitution by the minor; 6 Content of the contract and principles of interpretation; SECTION 1 Pre-contractual statements-terms or mere representations?; A) Accepting responsibility or advising on verification; B) Importance attached test; C) Special knowledge of the statement maker; SECTION 2 Written contracts; A) The parol evidence rule; B) The effect of signature.

SECTION 3 Oral contracts-incorporation of written terms.

Jill Poole's bestselling Casebook on Contract Law provides students with a comprehensive selection of case law which addresses all aspects of the subject encountered on undergraduate courses.Extracts have been chosen from a wide range of historical and contemporary cases to illustrate the reasoning processes of the courts and to show how legal principles are developed. The cases can be analysed and discussed independently while, taken as a whole, the chapters provide a sound understanding of the modern law of contract. Key features:· An introductory chapter provides valuable guidance on how to.

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