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- catalog contributor b721449.
- catalog created "1981.".
- catalog date "1981".
- catalog date "1981.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1981.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction: the life of contract -- 2. Contract as promise -- Promise -- The moral obligation of promise -- What a promise is worth -- Remedies in and around the promise -- 3. Consideration -- 4. Answering a promise: offer and acceptance -- Promise and vows -- Acceptance and the law of third-party beneficiaries -- The simple circuitry of offer and acceptance -- Rejections, counteroffers, contracts at a distance, crossed offers -- Reliance on an offer -- 5. Gaps -- Mistake, frustration, and impossibility -- Letting the loss lie where it falls -- Parallels with general legal theory: an excursion -- Filling the gaps -- 6. Good faith -- "Honesty in fact" -- Good faith in performance -- 7. Duress and unconscionability -- Duress -- Coercion and rights -- Property -- Hard bargains -- Unconscionability, economic duress, and social justice -- Bad samaritans -- 8. The importance of being right -- You can always get your money back -- Conditions -- Waivers, forfeitures, repudiations -- Notes -- Index".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "162 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Contract as promise.".
- catalog identifier "0674169255".
- catalog identifier "0674169301 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Contract as promise.".
- catalog issued "1981".
- catalog issued "1981.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Contract as promise.".
- catalog subject "346/.02 19".
- catalog subject "Contracts.".
- catalog subject "K840 .F74 1981".
- catalog subject "K840 .F74".
- catalog subject "Promise (Law)".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction: the life of contract -- 2. Contract as promise -- Promise -- The moral obligation of promise -- What a promise is worth -- Remedies in and around the promise -- 3. Consideration -- 4. Answering a promise: offer and acceptance -- Promise and vows -- Acceptance and the law of third-party beneficiaries -- The simple circuitry of offer and acceptance -- Rejections, counteroffers, contracts at a distance, crossed offers -- Reliance on an offer -- 5. Gaps -- Mistake, frustration, and impossibility -- Letting the loss lie where it falls -- Parallels with general legal theory: an excursion -- Filling the gaps -- 6. Good faith -- "Honesty in fact" -- Good faith in performance -- 7. Duress and unconscionability -- Duress -- Coercion and rights -- Property -- Hard bargains -- Unconscionability, economic duress, and social justice -- Bad samaritans -- 8. The importance of being right -- You can always get your money back -- Conditions -- Waivers, forfeitures, repudiations -- Notes -- Index".
- catalog title "Contract as promise : a theory of contractual obligation / Charles Fried.".
- catalog type "text".