Includes index.
Contracts and contract law
Contract, tort and restitution
The functions of contract law
Economic analysis of contract law
Empirical work
Consideration
Intention to create legal relations
Offer and acceptance
Uncertainty and incompleteness
Communication mistakes
Express terms in oral agreements
Contents of written contracts
Inaccurate information and misrepresentation
Gap-filling by interpretation
Implied terms
Discharge by frustration
Expectation mistakes
Discharge by construction
Duties of disclosure
Some preliminary questions
Withholding performance and termination for default
Damages
Literal enforcement
Restitutionary remedies
Why are promises binding?
Economic analysis of contract law
The impact of the empirical studies
Critical approaches to contract
Developing the relational contract notion
Fairness and distributive justice
Transformation thesis
Rescission, variation, waiver and promissory estoppel
Adjustments in longer term contracts
Duress
Undue pressure and undue influence
Unconscionable bargains
A general principle?
Standard-form contracts
Exclusion clauses
Unfair terms in consumer contracts
Regulated contracts
Contracts contrary to public policy
Contracts involving the commission of a crime or a tort
Contracts in restraint of trade
Agency
Privity and the benefit of a contract between others
Subsequent assignment of the benefit of a contract
Privity and burdens
Assignment and the burden of a contract.
Contract : cases and materials by H. G. Beale. ISBN 9780199287369. Published by Oxford University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.