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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 ...
For example, the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999, which give effect to a European directive, contain a requirement of good faith. Several other examples of legislation implementing EU directives that use this concept are mentioned in Chitty on Contract Law (31st Ed), Vol 1 at para 1-043.
Raffles v Wichelhaus [1864] EWHC Exch J19, often called "The Peerless" case, is a leading case on mutual mistake in English contract law.The case established that where there is latent ambiguity as to an essential element of the contract, the Court will attempt to find a reasonable interpretation from the context of the agreement before it will void it.
AWB Simpson, 'The Horwitz Thesis and the History of Contracts' (1979) 46(3) The University of Chicago Law Review 533; Books. G Gilmore, The Death of Contract (1974) PS Atiyah, The Rise and Fall of Freedom of Contract (Oxford 1979) AWB Simpson, A History of the Common Law of Contract: the Rise of the Action of Assumpsit (1987)
The Restatement (Second) of the Law of Contracts is a legal treatise from the second series of the Restatements of the Law, and seeks to inform judges and lawyers about general principles of contract common law. It is one of the best-recognized and frequently cited legal treatises [1] in all of American jurisprudence.
An aunt's bequest enabled him to enroll in Harvard Law School, where he thrived. [2] He was an editor of the first volume of the Harvard Law Review, [3] and in 1888 he graduated first in his class with LL.B. and A.M. degrees. [4] On September 12, 1889, he married Mary Fairlie Wellman. [5]
The Death of Contract is a book by American law professor Grant Gilmore, written in 1974, about the history and development of the common law of contracts. [1] [2] Gilmore's central thesis was that the Law of Contracts, at least as it existed in the 20th-century United States was largely artificial: it was the work of a handful of scholars and judges building a system, rather than a more ...