Contracts category: 335 books

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by Michael Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015

What type of right is a property right? How are items of property classified for legal purposes? In this revised edition of Personal Property Law, Michael Bridge provides answers to these fundamental questions of property law. His critical analysis includes new material on insolvency, in particular...
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Restitution: Past, Present and Future

Essays in Honour of Gareth Jones

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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998

The essays in this volume are dedicated to Gareth Jones, the retiring Downing Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge. His contribution to legal scholarship has been immense, particularly in the fields of legal history, the law of trusts, charities law and, most famously, the law of...
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Unjust Enrichment and Public Law

A Comparative Study of England, France and the EU

by Dr Rebecca Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010

This book examines claims involving unjust enrichment and public bodies in France,England and the EU. Part 1 explores the law as it now stands in England and Wales as a result of cases such as Woolwich EBS v IRC, those resulting from the decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Metallgesellschaft...
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by Dr Sharon Erbacher
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017

This book examines claims in negligence arising from illegal conduct of the claimant. An array of public policy and other grounds have been advanced for resolving these claims, resulting in an area that is characterised by confusing and contradictory case law. The book analyses the various explanations...
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Wrongful Enrichment

A Study in Comparative Law and Culture

by Dr Nahel Asfour
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017

This book analyses enrichment law and its development and underpinning in social culture within three geographical regions: the United States, western members of the European Union and the late Ottoman Empire. These regions correspond, though imperfectly, with three different legal traditions: the...
Cover of Private Law in the 21st Century
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017

This book brings together a wide range of contributors from across the common law world to identify and debate the principal moral and systemic challenges facing private law in the remaining part of the twenty-first century. The various contributions identify serious problems relating to complexity...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017

This collection of essays interrogates significant issues at the forefront of scholarship and legal practice in the field of money remedies in equity. Chapters address the contentious and developing field of equitable compensation, including: the nature of equitable compensation; the relevant causation...
Cover of Defences in Unjust Enrichment
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016

This book is the second in a series of essay collections on defences in private law. It addresses defences to liability arising in unjust enrichment. The essays are written from a range of perspectives and methodologies. Some are doctrinal, others are theoretical, and several offer comparative insights....
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Pure Economic Loss

New Horizons in Comparative Law

by Vernon Valentine Palmer, Mauro Bussani
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2008

Pure economic loss is one of the most-discussed problems in the fields of tort and contract. How do we understand the various differences and similarities between these systems and what is the extent to which there is a common-core of agreement on this question? This book takes a comparative...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018

In Patel v Mirza [2016] UKSC 42, nine justices of the Supreme Court of England and Wales decided in favour of a restitutionary award in response to an unjust enrichment, despite the illegal transaction on which that enrichment was based. Whilst the result was reached unanimously, the reasoning could...
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Enrichment at the Claimant's Expense

Attribution Rules in Unjust Enrichment

by Dr Eli Ball
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016

This book presents an account of attribution in unjust enrichment. Attribution refers to how and when two parties – a claimant and a defendant – are relevantly connected to each other for unjust enrichment purposes. It is reflected in the familiar expression that a defendant be 'enriched at the...
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by Dr Yong Qiang Han
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016

Over the past two decades, protecting contractual parties' reasonable expectations has incrementally gained judicial recognition in English contract law. In contrast, however, the similar 'doctrine' of 'policyholder's reasonable expectations' has been largely rejected in English insurance law. This...
Cover of Negotiating and Drafting Office Leases
by John Busey Wood
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2019

“The first treatise that a leasing pro will refer to for explanation of new and difficult issues as well as a refresher on issues that have not recently been encountered.” — James S. Saunders, Esq., Senior Managing Director, Newmark Knight Frank “[An] extraordinary treatise.... The real value...
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Concentrate Questions and Answers Contract Law

Law Q&A Revision and Study Guide

by James Devenney
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019

The Concentrate Q&As are a result of a collaboration involving hundreds of law students and lecturers from universities across the UK. The series offers you better support and a greater chance to succeed on your law course than any of the competitors. 'A sure-fire way to get a 1st class result' (Naomi...
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