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A history of the common law of contract : the rise of the action of assumpsit / A.W.B. Simpson.

By: Simpson, A. W. B. (Alfred William Brian) [autor].
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1987Description: xlvii, 646 páginas.ISBN: 019825573X (pbk.); 0198253273.Subject(s): Incumplimiento de contrato -- Gran Bretaña -- Historia | Acciones y defensas (Derecho romano) -- Gran Bretaña -- HistoriaDDC classification: 346.02 S613h
Contents:
• 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

• 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