Comparative contract law : cases, materials and exercises /: cases, materials and exercises. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Thomas Kadner Graziano ; translations of materials by Christopher Booth, Eleanor Merrett, Rachel Harrison [and others].
• Authors: Kadner Graziano, Thomas, 1961-
• Contents: Front Matter; Copyright; Contents; About the author; Preface; Acknowledgements; Translations; Abbreviations; Table of provisions of codes, statutes, and principles of law reproduced; PART A INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 Contract law in the 21st century -- the purpose of this book; Chapter 2 A case-oriented and multilateral approach to the teaching, studying and learning of comparative law: the approach used in this book; Chapter 3 Is it legitimate and beneficial for judges to compare? Chapter 4 An introduction to the principles of contract law: the needs to which they respond and the purposes for which they are designedPART B CASE STUDIES; I. Formation of contracts; Case study 1 Offer or invitation to treat (invitatio ad offerendum)?; Case study 2 Conditions for the formation of a contract -- agreement or more? (cause and consideration); Case study 3 Obligation to maintain an offer or freedom to revoke it?; Case study 4 Modification of contracts -- the free will of the parties or limits on the freedom to contract (consideration revisited)?; Case study 5 The battle of forms II. Performance of contractsCase study 6 Right to receive performance of a contract or just a right to receive damages?; Case study 7 Damages and the role of fault in the event of delivery of goods not in conformity with the contract; Case study 8 Termination or alteration of a contract in the event of a fundamental change of circumstances? (clausula rebus sic stantibus or imprévision); Case study 9 Contracts and the transfer of ownership in movable property; III. The law applicable to cross-border contracts and the future of European contract law Case study 10 The law applicable to cross-border contracts (introduction)Case study 11 The future of European contract law; Index
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 346.022; Contracts; LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Contracts; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781788975476; 1788975472
• Related ISBNs: 9781788975469; 9781788975483
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 30, 2019).
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