United States Contract Law - Revised Edition
The Late E. Allan Farnsworth
Price: $75.00 225 pages. 1 Softcover Volume. Index. Table of Cases. Published September 1999.
ISBN-13: 978-0-929179-29-2 / ISBN-10: 0-929179-29-3
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Chapter 1 The Concept of Contract
1.1 The Meaning of Contract
1.2 The Role of Exchange
1.3 The Role of Promise
1.4 Impact of Government on the Bargaining Process
Chapter 2 History of Contract Law
2.1 Significance of History
2.2 The Enforcement of Promises in Early English Law
2.3 The Development of a General Basis for Enforcing Promises
2.4 The Division Between Law and Equity
2.5 Reception of English Law in the United States
2.6 Contract in Nineteenth-Century America
2.7 History of the Requirement of a Writing
2.8 History of the Transferability of Contract Rights
2.9 Contemporary Thinking about Contracts
Chapter 3 Sources of Contract Law
3.1 Sources in General
3.2 Treatises and the Restatement
3.3 Uniform Commercial Code
3.4 The Code and the Adaptability of Contract Law
3.5 Convention on Contracts for the Sale of Goods
3.6 Place of Contract Law in the Legal System
3.7 Scope and Related Fields
Chapter 4 Contract Formation
4.1 Consideration and its Alternatives
4.2 Offer and Acceptance
Chapter 5 Policing the Agreement
5.1 In General
5.2 Traditional Controls on Substance
5.3 Unconscionability
Chapter 6 Contract Interpretation
6.1 What Is to be Interpreted?
6.2 Meaning of Language
6.3 Course of Dealing, Usage, and Course of Performance
6.4 Filling of Gaps
Chapter 7 Performance
7.1 Generally
7.2 Conditions
7.3 Duties
7.4 Strict or Substantial Performance
Chapter 8 Excuse
8.1 Impossibility at Common Law
8.2 Impracticability Under the Code
8.3 Frustration of Purpose
Chapter 9 Remedies
9.1 Purposes and Types
9.2 Damages
9.3 Liquidated Damages and Penalties
9.4 Specific Relief
9.5 Punitive Damages in Arbitration