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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 ...
Subsequent to the publication of that edition of Chitty the Court of Appeal expressly replicated that statement. [3]: para 44 But even the editors of Chitty have acknowledged that their own preferred test of the requirement of genuine pre-estimate of loss has become very flexible. [18]
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 ...
The Portuguese code renders a guarantee provable by all the modes established by law for the proof of the principal contract [38] According to most civil codes civil a guarantee like any other contract can usually be made verbally in the presence of witnesses and in certain cases (where for instance considerable sums of money are involved) sous ...
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.
"Chitty was known as a kind and genial man, a keen whist player and musician, and an energetic volunteer." [1] He retired in 1877, and died at home in London. [1] In 1826, he had married Eliza née Cawston, and the couple had two sons who followed in their father's legal footsteps: [1] Thomas Edward Chitty (1826/7-1868), clerk to the Bristol ...
Eighteenth Edition. Oxford University Press. Pages 1080 and 1081. p xxiii; A G Guest (ed). Chitty on Contracts. Twenty-Seventh Edition. Sweet & Maxwell. London. 1994. Volume 2 (Specific Contracts) (Common Law Library No 2). Paragraphs 33-104 and 33-173. Sealy and Milman. Annotated Guide to the Insolvency Legislation 2011. Fourteenth Edition ...