Promises and contract law : comparative perspectives
"Promises and Contract Law is the first modern work to explore the significance of promise to contract law from a comparative legal perspective. Part I explores the component elements of promise, its role in Greek thought and Roman law, the importance of the moral duty to keep promises and the...
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Cambridge New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press ,
c2011
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The concept of promise
- 2. Promises as obligations: morality and law
- 3. The historical development of promissory ideas in the law
- 4. Formation of contract
- 5. Third party rights
- 6. Contractual remedies
- 7. The renunciation of contractual rights
- 8. The future of promise in contract law