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Simpson, A. W. B.

A history of the common law of contract : the rise of the action of assumpsit / A.W.B. Simpson. - Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1987. - xlvii, 646 páginas

• Part I The Medieval Law of Contract
• Introduction
• I Covenants
• II The Writ of Debt
• III Debt on Informal Contracts
• Part II The Action for Breach of Promise
• I The Emergence of the Action of Assumpsit1
• II The Action for Breach of Promise
• III The Relationship Between Assumpsit and the Older Remedies
• IV The Doctrine of Consideration —Introduction
• V Consideration in the Law of Uses
• VI Consideration and the Canon Law1
• VII Assumpsit and the Doctrine of Consideration
• VIII Implied Promises and Quasi-Contract
• IX The Promise and Its Validity
• X Contractual Capacity and Agency
• XI Transmission of Liability on Death
• XII Pleading and Procedure in the Action for Breach of Promise
• XIII The Statute of Frauds


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Incumplimiento de contrato--Historia--Gran Bretaña
Acciones y defensas (Derecho romano) --Historia--Gran Bretaña

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