Cases, Problems, and Materials on Contracts

Author: Thomas D. Crandall
Published: March 2004
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Company, A
ISBN: 0735527970
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 855

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If you want to get right to the heart of contracts, join your many coleagues who hae adopted Crandall and Whaley's direct, prolem—oriented casebook. Thousands of students have already attained a solid grasp of important legal principles through this popular book. Now, in its updated Third Edition, CASES, PROBLEMS, AND MATERIALS ON CONTRACTS brings you an efficient, effective, and up—tp—date vehicle for teaching Contracts. From offer and acceptance to assignment and delegation, Crandall and Whaley lead your student on a straight path through the essentials of modern contract law.This concise casebook features: an accessible cases—and—problems approach straighforward text carefully crafted questions emphasis on the basic themes of contract lawScrupulously updated for its Third Edition, CASES, PROBLEMS, AND MATERIAL ON CONTRACTS now offers: tighter case editing, resulting in a more concise book new and updated cases coverage of current issues, such as the Shrinkwrap Agreement on Software and Payment—in—Full Checks new problems A revised and updated Teacher's Manual that provides a solid set of materials for the prolem—oriented approach to contracts. Chapters are organized around actual cases, which are presented in narrative form, and include analysis and commentary. Topics encompass all aspects of contracts, including intent, consideration, remedies, statute of frauds, parole evidence rule and interpretation of contract, avoidance of contract, conditions and promises, anticipatory repudiation, third party beneficiaries, and assignment and delegation. Special attention is given to terminology and the historical development of the law. Among the cases included are Burger King Corp. v. Family Dining Inc., to illustrate forfeiture as an excuse; United States v. Algernon Blair, Inc., on restitution for breach; and Hoffman v. Red Owl Stores, on the limits of the doctrine of consideration. Crandall is visiting professor at Wake Forest U., Whaley teaches at the Ohio State U.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Study of the Law of Contracts
Ch. 1 Intent to Contract: Offer and Acceptance 1
Ch. 2 Consideration 149
Ch. 3 Remedies 257
Ch. 4 The Statute of Frauds 429
Ch. 5 The Parol Evidence Rule and Interpretation of the Contract 485
Ch. 6 Avoidance of the Contract 549
Ch. 7 Conditions and Promises: Performance and Breach 747
Ch. 8 Anticipatory Repudiation 857
Ch. 9 Third Party Beneficiaries 879
Ch. 10 Assignment and Delegation 917
Table of Cases 967
Index 973

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