4th Edition

Unlocking Contract Law

By Chris Turner Copyright 2014
    496 Pages
    by Routledge

    496 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Unlocking the Law series makes the law accessible. Each chapter contains activities such as quick quizzes and self-test questions, key facts charts to consolidate your knowledge and diagrams to aid learning. Cases, judgments and primary source quotations are prominently displayed. Summaries help you understand each chapter, there is a glossary of legal terminology. New features include problem questions with guidance on answering, as well as essay questions and answer plans, plus cases and materials exercises. All titles in the series follow the same formula and include the same features so students can move easily from one subject to another.

    1. The origins and character of contract law
    2. Formation of a contract: offer and acceptance
    3. Formation of a contract: consideration
    4. Formation of a contract: intention to create legal relations
    5. Form
    6. The obligations under a contract: terms
    7. The obligations under a contract: exclusion and limitation clauses
    8. Void and voidable contracts
    9. Vitiating factors: misrepresentation
    10. Vitiating factors: mistake
    11. Vitiating factors: duress and undue influence
    12. Vitiating factors: illegality and unenforceable contracts
    13. Third party rights and the doctrine of privity
    14. Capacity
    15. Discharge of a contract
    16. Remedies in contract law
    17. Quasi-contract
    Index

    Biography

    Chris Turner is a qualified barrister and Senior Lecturer in law at Wolverhampton University. He has taught law at all levels and is an experienced author whose other titles include Key Facts: Contract Law and Key Cases: Contract Law, also published by Hodder Education. He is Series Editor of Unlocking the Law, Key Facts and Key Cases, all published by Hodder Education.