Law of Contract 1670-1870

"This book is concerned with the history of contract law over a two hundred year period stretching between 1670 and 1870. Inevitably it is also about how the Common law and Equity develops and evolves during that time"--

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The legal system and the law of contract; 3. Lawyers and merchants; 4. Lawyers and merchants II; 5. Equity and the common law; 6. Lord Mansfield and his successors; 7. Equity and the regulation of unfairness in contracting: the usury laws - a case study; 8. The classical model of contract: the product of a revolution in legal thought?; 9. Classical contract law and its limits; 10. Contract law, illegality and public policy; 11. Contract law and statute law; 12. Conclusion.

About the author

Warren Swain is an Associate Professor at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Warren Swain, Warren (University of Auckland) Swain, Swain Warren
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.02.2015
• EAN: 9781107040762
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04076-2
• No. of pages: 362
• Series: Cambridge Studies in English Legal History; Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; England, Wales, Law, LAW / Legal History, contract law, Legal History, Wales / Cymru