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Contract theory : the evolution of contractual intent / Larry A. DiMatteo.
LIBRA K840 .D56 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DiMatteo, Larry A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Contracts.
- Declaration of intention.
- Contracts--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 221 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [1998]
- Contents:
- 2. Morality, Promise, and the Objective Method 7
- Ex Gratia to Mansfield, Holmes, Fried, Atiyah 7
- The Transformation from Subjectivism to Objectivism 11
- Limitations of Language 13
- The Dominion of the External 14
- Gilmore's Duality: Questions of Fact and Questions of Law 16
- Cardozo's Objective and Subjective Change 17
- Symmetry of Form and Substance 18
- 3. Actual Intent versus Apparent Intent 21
- The Internal as Representation of the External 21
- The Objective Theory of Contracts 22
- The Reasonable Person Standard 23
- The Twin Pillars of Contract: Bargain and Reliance 25
- Reliance Theory 26
- Reasonable Reliance: The Realm of Expanded Liability 27
- The Frontier of Contracts: Comfort Instruments 28
- The Presumption of Intentionality 31
- Promisor-Promisee Objectivity 33
- Communal Objectivity and Detached Objectivity 36
- Llewellyn's Duality: Specific Assent and Blanket Assent 38
- The Implication of Consent: Barnett's Second-Order Problem of Knowledge 42
- The Subjective Theory of Contracts 45
- The Modified Subjective or Intersubjective Approach 49
- 4. The Reasonable Person Standard 51
- The Parties 53
- Totality of the Circumstances 56
- Custom and Trade Usage 60
- Custom as Supplement 64
- Language as Custom 65
- Main Purpose Rule 66
- Manifestation of Intent and Its Manipulation 68
- Relational Consent 72
- 5. The Dialectic 75
- Religious Foundations 75
- Philosophical Foundations 79
- Durkheim's Objectivity and the Just Contract 82
- Philosophy and the Reasonable Person 83
- The Psychological Dimension 85
- The Judicial Mind and the Reasonable Person 88
- 6. Law of Satisfaction 91
- The "Law of Satisfaction" and the Objective Theory of Contracts 91
- Freedom of Contract and the Presumption of Reasonableness 93
- Subjective Satisfaction and Objective Dissatisfaction 94
- Kant's Conception of Law 96
- The Doctrine of Substantial Performance 98
- 7. The Reality of Intent 101
- The Infancy Law Doctrine 102
- The Objectification of the Infancy Law Doctrine 103
- The Judicial Assault 103
- The Legislative Assault 106
- Law as Evolution 107
- The Case of Economic Duress 109
- The Undue Influence Duality 111
- The Externalities of Contracts 112
- 8. Analogues 115
- Criminal Law: Mens Rea 115
- Circumstantial Evidence and the State of Mind Requirement 118
- The Criminal Law's Reasonable Person Standard 121
- Law of Agency: Implied and Apparent Authority 121
- Reasonableness and the Law of Agency 123
- The Deontological-Teleological Dialectic 124
- An International Comparative: The CISG 126
- 9. The Inner Experience of Contract Law 129
- Jural Rudiments and Human Values 129
- The Subjectivity of Judgment 133
- Discretion as the Touchstone of Subjectivity 134
- Dialectic as Synthesis 136
- Law's Inner Experience 138.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-206) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0870134868
- 0870134442
- OCLC:
- 39116634
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