Contract as assumption : essays on a theme / / by Brian Coote ; edited and with a preface by Rick Bigwood.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Coote, Brian.
• TeilnehmendeR: Bigwood, Rick.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xxviii, 217 p.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• The essence of contract
• Consideration and benefit in fact and law
• Consideration and the variation of contracts : a different solution
• Consideration and the joint promisee
• The function of exception clauses
• The second rise and fall of fundamental breach
• Contract damages, Ruxley, and the performance interest
• The performance interest, Panatown, and the problem of loss
• Contract not trust : some questions about the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act from another perspective
• Assumption of responsibility and pure economic loss in New Zealand.