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Chitty on Contracts is one of the leading textbooks covering English contract law. The textbook is now in its 35th edition. The first editors were Joseph Chitty the Younger and Thompson Chitty, sons of Joseph Chitty. [1]
He married Elizabeth Woodward, and they had eight children. Of those, Joseph Chitty the younger, Thomas Chitty, Edward Chitty, and Thompson Chitty were lawyers and legal writers: [2] Joseph the younger and Thompson were the first editors of the standard textbook Chitty on Contracts. [6] Judge Joseph William Chitty was a grandson (son of Thomas ...
The most recent edition of Chitty on Contracts describes the rule as: [8] If a promisee, without the consent of the promisor, deliberately makes a material alteration in a specialty or other instrument containing words of contract, this will discharge the promisor from all liability thereon, even though the original words of the instrument are ...
The history of English contract law traces back to its roots in civil law, the lex mercatoria and the Industrial Revolution. Modern English contract law is composed primarily of case law decided by the English courts following the Judicature Acts and supplemented by statutory reform.
In the 1834 edition Mr. Chitty says: “There are instances in which the defendant may be regarded in the light of a wrong-doer in breaking his contract, and in such cases a greater latitude is allowed to the jury in assessing the damages.” And he cites Lord Sondes v Fletcher, [13] decided in 1822. There the plaintiff had presented the ...
Chitty on Contracts; Electronic Signatures Directive; Consideration in English law; Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000; Consumer Rights Act 2015; Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999; Contractual terms in English law; Coward v MIB
However, the approbation by the Privy Council did not move the editors of Chitty on Contracts in relation to the point of law. [17] Subsequent to the publication of that edition of Chitty the Court of Appeal expressly replicated that statement.
Chitty on Contracts [8] suggests that the different approaches may be reconciled by taking into account the nature of the transaction. If the transaction is obviously one-sided such as outright gift (particularly to the person exercising influence), and especially if it will have a serious effect on the victim like leaving them with limited ...