Recommended in more than 100 schools, the updated seventh edition of Concepts and Case Analysis in the Law of Contracts is a readable primer that offers first-year law students a reliable overview of the major themes and leading cases in the field of the law of contracts. This contracts primer is straightforward and uncluttered, covering the main themes of the first-year contracts course, together with related cases.


Imprint: Foundation Press
Series: Concepts and Insights
Publication Date: 06/03/2013

Marvin A. Chirelstein, Columbia

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Update on new materials: 1. Addition of six new cases and related analysis; 2. Substantial changes and lenthy additions to the following chapters: Chapter 3:, section B Chapter 4: new section C on 'public paolicy" Chapter 5: expanded discussion of Trade Usage in section B Chapter 7: case additions and expanded discussion of "impossibility"; deletion of Chicopee case discussion Chapter 8: Addition of Jordan and Peevyhouse cases in section B; Minor changes and deletions throughout.

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