Introduction : the life of contract
Contract as promise - Promise - The moral obligation of promise - What a promise is worth - Remedies in and around the promise
Consideration
Answering a promise : offer and acceptance - Promises and vows - Acceptance and the law of third-party beneficiaries - The simple circuitry of offer and acceptance - Rejections, counteroffers, contracts at a distance, crossed offers - Reliance on an offer
Gaps - Mistake, frustration, and impossibility - Letting the loss lie where it falls - Parallels with general legal theory : an excursion - Filling the gaps
Good faith - "Honesty in Fact" - Good faith in performance
Duress and unconscionability - Duress - Coercion and rights - Property - Hard bargains - Unconscionability, economic duress, and social justice - Bad samaritans
The importance of being right - You can always get your money back - Conditions
Waivers, forfeitures, repudiations.
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Contract as promise : a theory of contractual obligation by Charles Fried. ISBN 9780190240165. Published by Oxford University Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
