Jill Poole's bestselling Casebook on Contract Law provides students with a comprehensive selection of case law, addressing all aspects of the subject encountered on undergraduate courses. Extracts have been carefully chosen from a wide range of historical and contemporary cases to illustrate the reasoning processes of the courts, and to show how legal principles develop. Cases can either be analysed and discussed in isolation or, taken as a whole, the selection of cases form chapters providing a structured overview of the modern law of contract. Online Resource Centre The casebook is fully supported by an Online Resource Centre, which provides: - Self-test questions and answers - Guidance on answering questions in contract law - Exercises and guidance on reading cases - An opportunity for students to ask the author any questions
The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks A selection of online resources accompany this ...
This book uses substantial case extracts combined with authoritative explanation to provide readers with an understanding of the principles of contract law.
(1888) 40 Ch D 312 at 322, as modernised by Megarry J in Cresswell v Potter [1978] 1 WLR 255n. The first defendant concentrates on the three elements there referred to: first, the 'poor and ignorant man'; second, the considerable ...
This is the seventh, fully updated, edition of Professor Burrows' casebook, offering law students the ideal way to discover and understand contract law through reading highlights from the leading cases.
The House of Lords in that case confirmed the decision in Robertson v. Wait, (1853) 8 Ex. 299. In relation to that authority Lord Birkenhead LC said this at pp. 806–807: “My Lords, so far as I am aware, that case has not before ...
The 13th edition of this established and popular text provides a clear and commercially-focused exposition of contract law.
This new edition has been updated with the latest key legal developments by Professor Robert Merkin and Dr Severine Saintier.
Poole's Casebook on Contract Law
Beyond these and other standard contracts, the book also has chapters on the capacity to contract, the creation of third-party rights and duties, and the main forms of unjustified enrichment.
Studies in Contract Law