Reconstructing Contracts

by Douglas G. Baird

Book Overview

Every legal system must decide how to distinguish between agreements that are enforceable and those that are not. Formal bargains in the marketplace and casual promises in a social setting mark the two extremes, but many hard cases lie between. When gaps are left in a contract, how should courts fill them? What does it mean to say that an agreement is legally enforceable? If someone breaks a legally enforceable contract, what consequences follow?

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674072480
• ISBN13: 9780674072480
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"