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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 480 pages, kõrgus x laius: 216x138 mm, kaal: 588 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 13-Aug-2020
  • Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Professional
  • ISBN-10: 1526513838
  • ISBN-13: 9781526513830
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 480 pages, kõrgus x laius: 216x138 mm, kaal: 588 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 13-Aug-2020
  • Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Professional
  • ISBN-10: 1526513838
  • ISBN-13: 9781526513830
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Provides a comprehensive introduction to the principles of the Scots law of contract and provides the reader with a clear analysis of this difficult area of the law.

This practical text: - Illustrates the different types of contractual situations and examines the formation, performance and enforcement of contracts; - Includes examples of typical contract clauses and treats remedies in detail; - Is set in a comparative context and discusses the problems of cross-border and international contracts; - Explains the underlying principles of contract law; - Is written in a clear, well structured style and uses diagrams to illustrate complex situations.

The fifth edition covers key Supreme Court cases including Cavendish Square Holding BV v Tala El Makdessi and ParkingEye Limited v Beavis regarding penalty clauses. It also includes a new chapter on capacity to make a contract ie Who can make a Contract?

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Scottish Law and Scots Law Student online services.

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This text provides a clear introduction to the principles of the Scots law of contract. It explains the different types of contractual situations and looks at the formation, performance and enforcement of contracts.
Preface to the fifth edition vii
Preface to the fourth edition xi
Preface to the third edition xiii
Preface to the second edition xv
Preface to the first edition xvii
Table of statutes
xxiii
Table of statutory instruments
xxix
Table of other instruments
xxxi
Table of cases
xxxiii
Abbreviations lxiii
1 Introduction
1(44)
Contract, Obligations And Private Law
2(15)
Contract
5(4)
Unilateral promise
9(1)
Delict
10(1)
Unjustified enrichment
11(2)
Benevolent intervention (negotiorum gestio)
13(2)
Other heads of obligation?
15(2)
The Interests Protected By The Law Of Obligations
17(4)
Interaction Of Obligations: Concurrent And Cumulative Liability
21(4)
Classifying And Reclassifying Obligations
25(7)
Sources Of The Scots Law Of Contract
32(7)
Cross-Border Contracts And The Future
39(6)
2 Creation Of Voluntary Obligations (1): Capacity And Formation Of Contract
45(38)
Who Can Contract?
45(6)
Children And Young Persons
47(4)
Intention To Create Legal Obligations
51(4)
Contract
55(28)
Agreement - consensus in idem
55(7)
The offer and acceptance analysis
62(15)
Change of circumstances during the contract formation process
77(1)
The utility of the offer and acceptance analysis
78(5)
3 Creation of Voluntary Obligations (2): Writing, Pre-Contractual Liability, Promise and Third-Party Rights
83(36)
Written Formalities - Contracts Relating To Real Rights In Land
83(8)
Pre-Contractual Liability
91(6)
Promises
97(7)
Third-Party Rights
104(15)
Privity of contract
104(2)
Third-party rights
106(9)
Assignation
115(4)
4 Contents, Effects and Performance
119(60)
Express Terms Of The Contract
121(9)
Written terms
121(2)
Representations and contract terms (warranties)
123(3)
Bringing in terms from outside the negotiations
126(4)
Interpretation And Construction
130(10)
The traditional, objective approach
130(3)
A change in approach?
133(5)
Rules of preference
138(2)
Rectification
140(4)
Rectification and interpretation
144(1)
Implied Terms
144(12)
Terms implied in law
145(4)
Terms implied in fact
149(7)
Analysis Of Terms
156(10)
Different types of term
156(3)
Conditions and contract terms
159(7)
Some Typical Clauses
166(7)
No oral modification
166(1)
Assignation
167(1)
Interpretation clauses
167(1)
Choice of law and jurisdiction
168(1)
Exemption clauses
168(2)
Indemnity
170(1)
Force majeure
171(1)
Insolvency
172(1)
Performance And Extinction
173(6)
5 Getting Out of the Contract
179(66)
Defective Contracts
180(49)
Introduction
180(5)
Improper negotiations and abuse of position
185(10)
Error
195(34)
Frustration
229(14)
Introduction
229(3)
When does frustration arise?
232(6)
Consequences of frustration
238(4)
Conclusion
242(1)
Death, Supervening Incapacity Or Insolvency Of A Party
243(2)
6 Breach of Contract and Self-Help Remedies
245(40)
Breach Of Contract
245(1)
Remedies For Breach Of Contract: General
246(1)
Self-Help Remedies
247(38)
Mutuality of contract
248(3)
Materiality of breach
251(2)
Hazards of self-help
253(1)
Retention (suspension or with-holding of performance)
253(11)
Rescission (termination)
264(21)
7 Breach of Contract and Judicial Remedies
285(48)
Remedies Looking To Performance
285(12)
Actions for payment
285(1)
Debt actions in the Scottish courts 2018-19
286(1)
Non-personal injuries damages actions in the Scottish courts 2018-19
287(2)
Specific implement
289(5)
Interdict
294(2)
Interim remedies under the Court of Session Act 1988
296(1)
Remedies Providing A Substitute For Performance: Damages
297(29)
Loss
302(9)
Causation
311(1)
Remoteness
312(5)
Mitigation or minimisation
317(1)
Contributory negligence
318(4)
Third-party claims
322(4)
Claims By The Contract-Breaker
326(7)
8 Illegal Contracts and Judicial Control of Unfair Contract Terms
333(58)
Illegal Contracts
333(14)
Introduction
333(1)
When is a contract illegal?
334(7)
Consequences of illegality
341(5)
Property issues
346(1)
Conclusion
347(1)
Covenants In Restraint Of Trade
347(8)
Contracts for the sale of businesses and partnerships
349(1)
Contracts of employment
349(3)
Cartels
352(1)
Solusties
352(2)
Sole services contracts
354(1)
Blue pencil rule
355(1)
Penalties
355(8)
Irritancies
363(2)
Judicial Control Of Unfair Contract Terms
365(2)
Introduction
365(2)
Exemption Clauses
367(24)
Common law controls
367(4)
The Unfair Contracts Terms Act 1977
371(10)
The Consumer Rights Act 2015, Part 2
381(10)
Index 391
Hector MacQueen is Professor of Private Law and Deputy Head of the College of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Edinburgh