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050	0	0	_aKD1554.Z9 _bT73 2002
100	1		_aTreitel, G H _926975
245	1	0	_aSome landmarks of twentieth century contract law
260			_aOxford _bClarendon Press _c2002
500			_aIncludes index.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: 1. Agreements to Vary Contracts -- 1. Introduction 11 -- 2. Increasing Pacts -- (a) Consideration, Public Policy, and Duress 12 -- (b) Three-Party and Public Duty Cases: Benefit to -- Promisor 16 -- (c) Williams v Roffey Bros 18 -- (i) Facts and Result 18 -- (ii) Relation to Earlier Cases 20 -- 3. Decreasing Pacts -- (a) Consideration and Duress 23 -- (b) Foakes v Beer: Protection of Creditors 24 -- (c) The High Trees Case 29 -- (i) Facts and Decision 29 -- (ii) Conflict with Protective Function 32 -- (iii) The 'Estoppel' Analogy 33 -- (iv) Cause of Action? 35 -- (v) Differences between Kinds of Estoppel 38 -- 4. Cross-Overs 42 -- (a) High Trees and Increasing Pacts 42 -- (b) Williams v Roffey Bros and Decreasing Pacts 43 -- 2. The Battle over Privity -- 1. The Starting Point 47 -- 2. The Trust Exception 50 -- 3. Early Attacks on the Doctrine 53 -- 4. Third Parties Claiming the Benefit of Exemption -- Clauses -- (a) Vicarious Immunity and Bailment on -- Terms 53 -- (b) Rejection of Vicarious Immunity: The Midland -- Silicones Case 58 -- (c) Ways round Privity: Himalaya Clauses 64 -- (d) Ways round Privity: Other Drafting Devices 69 -- 5. Binding Third Parties by Exemption Clauses 70 -- (a) The General Rule 70 -- (b) Ways round the General Rule 73 -- (i) Implied Contract 73 -- (ii) Sub-Bailment on Terms 75 -- 6. Beswick v Beswick 82 -- (a) Facts and Result 82 -- (b) Ways round Privity 84 -- (c) Tort Liability? 88 -- (d) Damages in Respect of Third Party's Loss 90 -- (e) Law of Property Act 1925, Section 56(1) 94 -- (f) Legislative Reform 97 -- 3. Types of Contractual Terms -- 1. Conditions and Warranties 103 -- 2. Intermediate Terms 113 -- (a) The Hong Kong Fir Case 113 -- (b) Development and Policies 118 -- 3. Sale of Goods Act 1979, Section 15A 121 -- 4. Intermediate Terms and Warranties 123 -- 5. Insurance Warranties 126 -- 6. Fundamental Terms 128 -- (a) Exemption Clauses and Fundamental Breach 128 -- (b) Concept of Fundamental Term 129 -- (c) Problems of Construction 131 -- (d) Deviation 132 -- (e) Loss of Right to Rescind 136 -- Index 139.
650		0	_aContracts _zGreat Britain _xHistory. _926976
856	4	1	_3Table of contents only _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy033/2002281080.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0613/2002281080-d.html
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