Reconstructing Contracts Baird Douglas G.Pevná vazba
Reconstructing Contracts Baird Douglas G.Pevná vazba Every legal system must decide how to distinguish between agreements that are enforceable and those that are not. When gaps are left in a…
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Reconstructing Contracts Baird Douglas G.Pevná vazba
Every legal system must decide how to distinguish between agreements that are enforceable and those that are not. When gaps are left in a contract, how should courts fill them? Formal bargains in the marketplace and casual promises in a social setting mark the two extremes, but many hard cases lie between.
If someone breaks a legally enforceable contract, what consequences follow?For 150 years, legal scholars have debated whether a set of coherent principles provide answers to such basic questions. What does it mean to say that an agreement is legally enforceable? Oliver Wendell Holmes put forward the affirmative case, arguing that bargained-for consideration, expectation damages, and a handful of related ideas captured the essence of contract law.
The work of the next several generations, culminating in Grant Gilmore's The Death of Contract in 1974, took a contrary