Includes index.

Contents: Contract: Remedies for unfulfilled undertakings -- Introduction and economic concepts -- First -step remedies: Self-help -- Consumer protection -- Compensation and restitution: Damages: Introduction -- Remoteness -- Mitigation -- Reliance expenditure -- Pre-estimated damages -- Restitution -- Enforcement: Claims in debt -- Specific performance -- Substitute performance -- Injunctions and declarations -- Incentives: Incentives and disincentives -- Tort: Remedies for wrongdoing -- General issues in tort remedies: Objectives of the law -- Causation, mitigation and contributory Negligence -- Remoteness -- Exemplary damages -- Self-help -- Compensation for persona injuries and death: The Damages system in practice -- Personal injury damages: The formal law -- Damages upon death -- Appraisal of the damages system for personal injuries -- Protecting property and financial interests: Interference with the employment of land: Nuisance -- Protecting the right to occupy or use land -- Protecting the right to use chattels -- Protecting financial interests -- Interim protection and time limits: Interlocutory injunctions -- Time limits for claims.