Principle and policy in contract law : competing or complementary concepts? / Stephen Waddams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waddams, S. M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contracts--Great Britain.

Contracts.

Great Britain.

Contracts--Great Britain--Cases.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 248 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Other Title:

Principle & Policy in Contract Law

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Although presented as being derived from the past, principles in contract law have been subject to constant reformulation, thereby facilitating legal change while simultaneously seeming to preclude it. Principle and policy have been mutually interdependent, propositions not usually being called principles unless they have been perceived to lead to just results in particular cases, and as likely to produce results in future cases that accord with common sense, commercial convenience and sound public policy. The influence of policy has been frequent in contract law, but Stephen Waddams argues that an unmediated appeal to non-legal sources of policy has been constrained by the need to formulate generalised propositions recognised as legal principles. This interrelation of principle and policy has played an important role in enabling an uncodified system to hold a middle course between a rigid formalism on the one hand and an unconstrained instrumentalism on the other.

Contents:

Introduction: empire of reason or republic of common sense?

Intention, will, and agreement

Promise, bargain, and consideration

Unequal transactions

Mistake

Public policy

Enforcement

Conclusion: joint dominion of principle and policy.

Notes:

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781139005302

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