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Zusatztext Charles Fried attempts to restate and defend a liberal theory of contract . . . In setting out to defend what is, albeit in modified form, the classical theory of contract, Professor Fried is conscious that he is confronting a considerable weight of modern contract scholarship . . . This Fried confronts or finesses with elegance; grace, and skill." Harvard Law Review Informationen zum Autor Charles Fried is the Beneficial Professor of Law at Harvard University Law School. He is a former Solicitor General of the United States and a former Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. He has published widely across private law and the intersections of law, morality and politics. Klappentext Contract as Promise is a study of the philosophical foundations of contract law in which Professor Fried effectively answers some of the most common assumptions about contract law and strongly proposes a moral basis for it while defending the classical theory of contract. Zusammenfassung Contract as Promise is a study of the philosophical foundations of contract law in which Professor Fried effectively answers some of the most common assumptions about contract law and strongly proposes a moral basis for it while defending the classical theory of contract. This book provides two purposes regarding the complex legal institution of the contract. The first is the theoretical purpose to demonstrate how contract law can be traced to and is determined by a small number of basic moral principles. At the theory level the author shows that contract law does have an underlying, and unifying structure. The second is a pedagogic purpose to provide for students the underlying structure of contract law. At this level of doctrinal exposition the author shows that structure can be referred to moral principles. Together the two purposes support each other in an effective and comprehensive study of contract law. This second edition retains the original text, and includes a new Preface. It also includes a substantial new essay entitled Contract as Promise in the Light of Subsequent Scholarship--Especially Law and Economics which serves as a retrospective of the work accomplished in the last thirty years, while responding to present and future work in the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition 1 Introduction: The Life of Contract 2 Contract as Promise Promise The Moral Obligation of Promise What a Promise is Worth Remedies in and around the Promise 3 Consideration 4 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 5 Gaps Mistake, Frustration, and Impossibility Letting the Loss Lie Where It Falls Parallels with General Legal Theory: An Excursion Filling the Gaps 6 Good Faith "Honesty in Fact" Good Faith in Performance 7 Duress and Unconscionability Duress Coercion and Rights Property Hard Bargains Unconscionability, Economic Duress, and Social Justice Bad Samaritans 8 The Importance of Being Right You Can Always Get Your Money Back Conditions Waivers, Forfeitures, Repudiations Contract as Promise in the Light of Subsequent Scholarship-Especially Law and Economics Notes Index ...
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Charles Fried is the Beneficial Professor of Law at Harvard University Law School. He is a former Solicitor General of the United States and a former Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. He has published widely across private law and the intersections of law, morality and politics.
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Contract as Promise is a study of the philosophical foundations of contract law in which Professor Fried effectively answers some of the most common assumptions about contract law and strongly proposes a moral basis for it while defending the classical theory of contract.
Contenu
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
1
Introduction: The Life of Contract
2
Contract as Promise
Promise
The Moral Obligation of Promise
What a Promise is Worth
Remedies in and around the Promise
3
Consideration
4
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
5
Gaps
Mistake, Frustration, and Impossibility
Letting the Loss Lie Where It Falls
Parallels with General Legal Theory: An Excursion
Filling the Gaps
6
Good Faith
"Honesty in Fact"
Good Faith in Performance
7
Duress and Unconscionability
Duress
Coercion and Rights
Property
Hard Bargains
Unconscionability, Economic Duress, and Social Justice
Bad Samaritans
8
The Importance of Being Right
You Can Always Get Your Money Back
Conditions
Waivers, Forfeitures, Repudiations
Contract as Promise in the Light of Subsequent Scholarship-Especially Law and Economics
Notes
Index