This textbook provides an introduction to the subject and aims to equip the student with a sound grasp of the basic principles involved. The book has been fully revised, updated and indexed for this edition. The topics included are: offer and acceptance; consideration; intention to form legal relationships; certainty and form of the contract; contents of contracts; misrepresentation; exclusion clauses; incapacity; mistake; duress and undue influence; privity of contract; illegality; frustration; discharge of the contract - performance, agreement and breach; remedies for breach of contract - damages and equitable remedies; quasi-contract; agency; sale of goods - consumer credit and supply of goods and services; and assignment.
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