Principles of Contract at Law and in Equity: A Treatise on the General Principles Concerning the Validity of Agreements in the Law of England and America

Baker, Voorhis, 1906 - 985 sider

AGREEMENT PROPOSAL AND ACCEPTANCE	1

Contract	7

Discussion of cases	15

Other kinds of general proposal	24

Communication of revocation	31

Contracts by correspondence	37

Certainty of acceptance	43

Promises by deed may bind without acceptance	55

Performance dependent on specific thing existing	536

Construction of express exceptions in certain contracts	542

Default of promisee discharges promisor	549

peculiar treatment of them	555

A Mistake in general	564

Mistake as Excluding True Consent	581

B Error as to the person of the other party	590

both parties	606

Married Women Can contract only as to separate property	87

judicial separation c	93

Convicts c	104

a responsible principal has been named	117

fessed agent is treated as principal	123

Formality in Early English Law	148

The Action of Assumpsit	154

porate purposes	164

CHAPTER IV	185

Benefit to promisor	192

Past consideration ineffectual	199

Performance of obligation to third person	206

For variation of contract	212

Imperfect gifts	218

Third persons not bound	224

Assignment of contracts	278

able debentures	287

running with the land	303

DUTIES UNDER CONTRACT	307

Order and Mutuality of Performance	320

Default in first or other instalments of Discontinuous Performance	327

Repudiation of Contracts	333

CHAPTER VII	370

B Agreements contrary to morals or good manners	410

but an offence	419

lation c by improper means	434

considered	511

CHAPTER VIII	518

Agreements impossible in law	524

Performance forbidden by foreign law	530

Where only one party is ignorant of the material fact	617

Peculiar rules of construction in equity	625

Peculiar defences and remedies derived from equity	633

CHAPTER X	646

Classes of contracts specially treated	652

A Insurance	656

Right of rescission	680

Consent of third person procured by fraud is voidable	686

The representation must be such as to induce the contract	693

Representation must be by a party to the contract	699

option to rescind	705

Right exercisable by and against representatives	712

Distinction in cases of obtaining goods by fraud where no property passes	718

Result of unfounded charges of fraud	724

Rules as to burden of proof	727

Confirmation and acquiescence	769

Statutes regulating professions	799

Treatment of equitable obligations at Common Law	809

Rescission by parol agreement	815

Accord and satisfaction	828

Cancellation and surrender	843

Merger	874

APPENDIX	881

Authorities on limits of corporate powers	896

Note E Classification of contracts in Roman and Medieval Law	902

Note G Occupations dealings c regulated or restrained by statute	909

Note K On the supposed equitable doctrine of making representations	915

French law on inofficious gifts and captation	922

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Tittel	Principles of Contract at Law and in Equity: A Treatise on the General Principles Concerning the Validity of Agreements in the Law of England and America 20th-century legal treatises
Forfatter	Frederick Pollock
Redaktører	Gustavus Henry Wald, Samuel Williston
Utgave	3
Utgiver	Baker, Voorhis, 1906
Lengde	985 sider

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