Samuel, Geoffrey. creator text xxu London Cavendish Publishing Ltd 2000 2nd ed. monographic eng

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lxxvi,873p.: 24cm. Contents:The structure of the common law:Introduction -- The role of the courts -- The role of precedent -- The role of parliament -- The roll of institutions -- The role of legal categories -- The role of the categories of public and private law -- Legal method and the common law:Introduction -- Causes of action -- Pleadings (Statements of case) -- The legal rule -- General principles of law -- Legal concepts -- Law and fact -- Legal reasoning -- Remedies:Introduction -- Remedies and rights -- Remedies and interests -- Self-help -- Debt -- Tracing -- Specific performance -- Rescission in equity -- Rectification in equity -- Account -- Subrogation -- Injection -- Declaration -- Discovery of documents -- Damages -- Introduction to contractual obligations:Introduction -- Contract and the law of obligations -- Types of contract -- Contractual liability -- Statutes and contract -- Promise and agreement -- Freedom of contract -- Good faith -- The interpretation of contracts -- The formation of a contract:Introduction -- Offer and acceptance -- Intention and certainty -- Consideration -- Misrepresentation -- Mistake -- Fraud -- Duress -- Undue influence -- Non-performance of a contract:Introduction -- Liability and implied terms -- Breach and non-performance -- The role of fault -- Contractual liability for people -- Contractual liability for things -- Exclusion and limitation clauses -- Remedies and breach -- Impediment to performance -- Contract:Final observations -- Non-contractual obligations(1):Tort:Introduction to non-contractual obligations -- The legacy of the forms of action -- Damage caused to another -- Liability for individual acts -- Liability for people -- Liability for things -- Liability for words -- Particular liabilities -- Road accidents -- Defences to tort actions -- Abuse of rights -- Non-contractual obligations(2):Restitution:Introduction:Non-contractual debt claims -- Quasi-contracts -- Proprietary remedies -- Defective transactions -- restitution for wrongs -- Unjust enrichment -- Law of obligations:Final observations. Geoffrey, Samuel. Includes index. KD7576.S25 1859415229 150204