Principle and Policy in Contract Law
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Principle and Policy in Contract Law

Competing or Complementary Concepts?

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eBook - PDF

Principle and Policy in Contract Law

Competing or Complementary Concepts?

About this book

Although presented as being derived from the past, principles in contract law have been subject to constant reformulation, thereby facilitating legal change while simultaneously seeming to preclude it. Principle and policy have been mutually interdependent, propositions not usually being called principles unless they have been perceived to lead to just results in particular cases, and as likely to produce results in future cases that accord with common sense, commercial convenience and sound public policy. The influence of policy has been frequent in contract law, but Stephen Waddams argues that an unmediated appeal to non-legal sources of policy has been constrained by the need to formulate generalised propositions recognised as legal principles. This interrelation of principle and policy has played an important role in enabling an uncodified system to hold a middle course between a rigid formalism on the one hand and an unconstrained instrumentalism on the other.

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Information

Topic
Law
Subtopic
Contract Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Table of Cases
  6. Preface
  7. 1 Introduction: empire of reason, or republic of common sense?
  8. 2 Intention, will and agreement
  9. 3 Promise, bargain and consideration
  10. 4 Unequal transactions
  11. 5 Mistake
  12. 6 Public policy
  13. 7 Enforcement
  14. 8 Conclusion: joint dominion of principle and policy
  15. Select Bibliography
  16. Index