Reconstructing Contracts Douglas G Baird Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Law Legal

Every Legal System Must Decide How To Distinguish Between Agreements That Are Enforceable And Those Not Formal Bargains In The Marketplace Casual Promises A Social Setting Mark Two Extremes But Many Hard Cases Lie When Gaps Left Contract Should Courts Fill Them? What Does It Mean Say An Agreement Is Legally Enforceable? If Someone Breaks Consequences Follow?For 150 Years Scholars Have Debated Whether Set Of Coherent Principles Provide Answers Such Basic Questions Oliver Wendell Holmes Put Forward Affirmative Case Arguing Bargained-For Consideration Expectation Damages Handful Related Ideas Captured Essence Law Work Next Several Generations Culminating Grant Gilmore’s Death 1974 Took Contrary View Coherence Had Tried Bring Field Was Illusory More Sensible See Contracts As Merely Species Civil Obligation Resist Temptation Impose Rigid Artificial Rules Reconstructing Douglas Baird Takes Stock Current State Doctrine Process Reinvigorates Classic Framework Anglo-American He Shows Holmes’s Fundamentally Sound Even They Lack Talismanic Quality Formerly Ascribed Them Properly Understood Continue Best Guide For New Generation Students Practitioners Judges Σελίδες: 184 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0430 Διαστάσεις: 15 6X15 6Cm