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Fully updated with the latest legal developments, Contract Law is the essential guide to the life of a contract. It covers all stages of the process, from negotiation and formation, through its possible modification to the ending of a contract including a thorough examination of available remedies. Offering a modern, engaging account of all aspects of contract law, this new edition provides a clear understanding of the legal principles which underpin the contractual process.

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Contents:

Introduction

PART I: THE NEGOTIATION STAGE

2. Negotiating the Contract

PART II: THE BIRTH OF THE CONTRACT

Section A. Formation of a Contract: The Positive Requirements

3. Agreement: Offer and Acceptance

4. The Enforceability of Agreements: Consideration and its Alternatives

5. Form, Intention and Certainty

Section B. Formation: Negative Factors.

6. Illegality in Formation

7. Non-Agreement Mistakes

Section C. Personnel.

8. Capacity

9. Third Parties

PART III: THE LIFE OF THE CONTRACT

10. The Content of the Contract: Express and Implied Terms

11. The Content of the Contract: Exclusion Clauses

12. The Modification of Contracts

13. Performance

PART IV: THE DEATH OF THE CONTRACT

14. Frustration

15. Termination for Breach

PART V: THE AFTERMATH

16. Literal Performance

17. Damages for Breach of Contract