D J Ibbetson, David Ibbetson

A Historical Introduction to the Law of Obligations

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Produktbeschreibung

The result is a system shot through with inconsistencies and illogicalities, but with the resilience to adapt as necessary to take account of shifting pressures and changing circumstances.

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In this book David Ibbetson exposes the historical layers beneath the modern rules and principles of contract, tort, and unjust enrichment. Small-scale changes caused by lawyers successfully exploiting procedural advantages are juxtaposed with changes caused by friction along the boundaries of these principal legal categories; fossilized remnants of old doctrines jostle with newer ideas in a state of half-consistent tension; and loose-knit rules of equity developed in the Chancery infiltrate themselves into more tightly controlled Common law structures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 685g
• ISBN-13: 9780198764120
• ISBN-10: 019876412X
• Artikelnr.: 21444630

Autorenporträt

David Ibbetson is a lecturer in law at Oxford University

Inhaltsangabe

* 1 Prologue: The Prehistory of the English Law of Obligations
* Pervasive Ideas
* Penalties and Entitlements
* Wrongs: Dishonour and Loss
* The Economy of Exchange
* Oaths: Threats and Promises
* Contracts and Personal Bonds
* Obligations in Roman Law
* Delict
* Contract
* Quasi-Contract
* Quasi-Delict
* 2 Structural Foundations
* Liability for Wrongdoing: Damage and Dishonour
* Glanvill and the Law of Debt
* Covenant and a Law of Contract
* 3 Unity and Fragmentation of the Mediaeval Law of Contract
* The Formalization of Covenant
* Covenant and the Conditional Bond
* The Fragmentation of Remedies for Informal Contracts
* 4 Trespass, Trespass on the Case, and the Mediaeval Law of Tort
* The Core of Trespass: Forcible Wrongdoing
* Contractual Misperformance and Non-forcible Wrongs
* The Origins of Trespass on the Case
* 5 The Substantive Law of Torts
* Strict Liability and the Role of Fault
* The Scope of Trespassory Liability
* 6 The Substantive Law of Contract
* Voluntariness, Agreement, and the Formation of Contracts
* The Boundaries of Contract
* Expectations, Entitlements, and Liability for Breach of Contract
* Part 2 The Triumph of Trespass on the Case
* 7 Tort, Property, and Reputation: the Expansion of the Action on the
Case
* Nuisance
* Trover and Conversion
* Tort and Reputation: Defamation
* 8 The Rise of the Action of Assumpsit
* Trespass on the Case and Contractual Liability
* Contract and Tort: the Action of Assumpsit
* Assumpsit and the Theory of Contract
* The Formal Structure of Contractual Litigation
* Part 3 The Modern Law of Tort and Contract
* 9 Trespass, Case, and the Moral Basis of Liability
* Trespass and Case: the Formal Division
* The Crystallisation of Neglligence
* 10 The Law of Torts in the Nineteenth Century: The rise of the Tort
of Negligence
* The Tort of Negligence
* The Fragmentation of the Law of Tort
* 11 The Law of Torts in the Twentieth Century: Expansion and Collapse
of the Tort of Negligence
* The Unity of the Tort of Negligence
* Negligence and its Satellites
* 12 Foundations of the Modern Law of Contract
* The Model of Contract
* The Theory of Contract
* 13 The Rise of the Will Theory
* The Will Theory and the Classical Model of Contract
* The Will Theory and the Model of Exchange
* 14 The Decline of the Will Theory: Legal Regulation and Contractual
Fairness
* Internal Weakness of the Will Theory
* Undercutting the Will of the Parties
* Part 4 Unjust Enrichment
* 15 Unjust Enrichment
* Unjust Enrichment before Lord Mansfield
* Implied Trusts and Implied Contracts
* Quasi-Contract, Restitution, and Unjust Enrichment
* 16 Legal Change and Legal Continuity