Understanding the Law of Obligations: Essays on Contract, Tort and Restitution
- ISBN-10
- 1472559002
- ISBN-13
- 9781472559005
- Category
- Contracts
- Pages
- 223
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Author
- Andrew S. Burrows
Description
NEW in paperback From the Reviews of the hardback edition: This is a fascinating and thought-provoking collection of eight essays ... Taken together they represent a coherent and compelling exposition of the English law of obligations ... One is left with the picture of an [author] ... who remains a devotee of ""practical scholarship"" and the deductive technique of the common law and has a grasp on its intricacies second to non."" Edwin Peel, The Law Quarterly Review, 1999 ""[These essays], all concerned with various aspects of contract, tort and unjust enrichment, are a pleasure to peruse.
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- 2000-11-15
- 248 pages
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- 2000-11-15
- 248 pages
- Ebook
- Bloomsbury Publishing
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- 1998-06-19
- 249 pages
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- Hart Publishing
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