The Law of Contracts, Volym 3

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Baker, Voorhis & Company, 1920
 

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Whether anticipatory inability to perform amounts to a breach 1326
2378
Repudiation may be a defence though it does not amount to a breach 1331
2384
Possible distinction between the effect of repudiation before breach and after
2390
When consequential damages are natural and proximate 1355
2392
Recovery for the plaintiffs preparations 1341
2396
Certainty of damage and certainty of amount of damage 1346
2405
Avoidable consequences 1353
2413
The rule of Hadley v Baxendale 1356
2420
Mitigation or enhancement of damages 1359
2426
Employees recovery where trial precedes the expiration of contract 1362
2434
Restriction of New York rule 1367
2440
Conditional sales 1374
2446
Measure of damages for nonacceptance of goods 1378
2452
Buyer is entitled to the difference between the market and contract prices 1383
2458
Delivery of too small a quantity 1387
2465
Restricted rule of damages for fraud 1392
2471
Further illustrations 1394
2475
Damages for anticipatory breach 1397
2481
Delay in performing contract for sale of land 1400
2488
Contract to give a lease 1405
2494
Damages for failure to pay a promisees debt 1408
2500
Interest on a penal bond 1414
2509
Compound interest 1417
2515
Specified and unspecified goods 1419a
2523
Miscellaneous contracts 1421
2529
Equity will not make a decree impossible of performance 1422
2536
Discretionary character of the remedy 1425
2542
Inadequacy of consideration 1428
2548
Rules of mutuality as generally stated 1433
2556
Contracts voidable for fraud or defective title 1435
2557
Unilateral contracts and partly performed bilateral contracts 1439
2563
Terminable contracts 1442
2569
Wagner 1447
2576
Mutuality in negative contracts 1451
2584
Restitution of land conveyed 1456
2590
Anything received by plaintiff must be returned 1460
2596
Authorities divided 1462
2602
Where no performance has been rendered 1465
2609
One guilty of the first breach cannot rescind 1468
2615
Minor inconsistencies 1471
2619
Recovery for labor and materials by party in default 1475
2626
Measure of recovery in action for restitution 1478
2632
How benefit to the defendant is to be calculated 1483
2639
BOOK VII
2645
Matters of opinion 1491
2651
Liability for fraudulent statements of opinion 1494
2657
Silence as to quality of goods sold may be fraudulent 1498
2665
Early history of deceit 1502
2671
Illustrations 1506
2677
Estoppel in pais 1508
2679
Limitation of liability for honest misrepresentation 1511
2686
Action in reliance on false impression 1515
2692
Misrepresentations by third persons 1518
2700
Fraud on a buyer 1522
2708
Time allowed for election of remedies 1526
2714
Exceptions to the rule 1530
2720
Fraud as to creditors 1534
2727
Reformation can only make a writing express what parties intended should
2728
Mistake must be injurious 1593
2729
Confusion between void and voidable transactions 1538
2734
Mistake to justify rescission must relate to a fundamental assumption 1544
2741
be written 1549
2748
Executory contracts in England 1553
2755
Rescission 1557
2761
Inferior quality of the goods 1563
2768
Mistake as to the existence of ore 1567
2774
Mistake as to area of land 1571
2780
Recovery of money paid under a mistake of fact 1574
2786
Relief sometimes allowed for unilateral mistake in other cases 1578
2792
General statements deny relief for mistake of law 1582
2798
Limits of possibility of reformation for mistake of law 1586
2805
Money paid under a mistake of law by a public officer or to an officer of
2812
Prompt election and restoration of the status quo 1594
2815
Law and equity rescission at law 1598
2821
CHAPTER XLIII
2828
Abuse of lawful means 1607
2835
Arguments that threats of criminal prosecution may not be duress are
2841
Coercion by judgment 1619
2849
Duress does not exclude capacity to contract 1624
2856
Variation of public policy 1629
2864
Illustrations of recovery where plaintiff not innocent 1632
2870
Statement by Taft J of permissible restraints 1637
2876
Sale of business with restrictive covenant is valid 1641
2884
Promises ancillary to contracts of employment 1643
2891
Contracts not to divulge trade secrets are valid 1646
2900
Whether contract between broker and customer may be invalid though that
2946
Indorsement of negotiable instrument for gambling consideration 1677
2952
Usury 1682
2960
Renewal obligations 1688
2966
Excessive charges 1693
2974
Damages for default may be greater than legal interest 1696
2981
Importance of delivery 1704
2988
Ratification and adoption of contracts made on Sunday 1707
2991
Collateral effects of champertous contracts 1713
2999
Contracts to indemnify sureties on bail bonds 1717
3005
Decisions in the United States 1721
3011
Limiting parties to particular courts or procedure 1725
3017
Bargains for offices or advantages in private corporations 1736
3020
Contingent compensation 1729
3024
Contracts for railroad locations or stations or operations 1733
3031
Contracts of fiduciaries tending to impair fidelity 1737
3034
Quasicontractual recovery 1740
3040
Agreements to resume marital relations 1744
3046
Contracts with aliens suspended or avoided by declaration of war 1748
3053
Contracts collaterally connected with unlawful intent or act 1752
3059
Executory promise to furnish goods intended for unlawful purpose imposes
3065
Illustrations of prohibitory statutes 1765
3071
Revenue statutes may invalidate contracts 1769
3077
Corporation illegally doing business is liable on its contracts and may
3083
Unconstitutional state prohibitions 1776
3086
Partly illegal bilateral contracts 1782
3092
Rescission allowed when illegal agreement unexecuted 1788
3100
Treatment of these methods 1794
3106
What amounts to an appropriation by the creditor 1799
3112
Interests of third persons 1804
3118
Application of collateral 1807
3124
By whom and to whom tender must be made 1811
3127
Effect of tender in discharging obligations 1817
3133
Early law 1821
3140
Restoration of the status quo 1827
3146
American decisions 1831
3152
Accords and similar agreements 1837
3159
Even though full performance tendered or part performance rendered 1843
3166
Debts of record 1850
3173
Reasonableness of satisfaction 1852
3174
Accord and satisfaction with a third personEnglish cases 1857
3182
Conclusiveness of an account stated 1864
3191
Analysis of compound novation 1867
3197
Necessity of the assent of all parties to a compound novation 1871
3204
Cancellation and surrender is the normal method of discharging a specialty 1876
3210
Conveyances of corporeal and incorporeal hereditaments 1883
3216
Rule was originally applicable to specialties 1890
3223
Alteration by a stranger 1892
3224
Contracts within the Statute of Frauds 1895
3230
What alterations are material 1902
3236
Criticism of decisions 1905
3242
Formerly a debt died with the writingreason for the rule 1910
3253
Tendency of best modern decisions 1917
3260
Effect of conditional payment 1923
3269
When writing necessary 1928
3275
Objective and subjective impossibility 1932
3282
Classification of excusable impossibility 1935
3288
Prevention by judicial order 1939
3295
Contracts to marry 1943
3301
Injury of goods contracted to be sold 1947
3307
Test for determining whether a contract depends on continuance
3317
Partial impossibility 1956
3323
Impossibility due to promisors fault 1959
3329
Building contracts 1964
3338
Liability for defective plans 1966
3340
Other effects of impossibility 1969
3346
Assumption of risk 1972a
3353
Incomplete work on property which is destroyed 1975
3360
Measure of damages where full performance is prevented by impossibility 1977
3366
CHAPTER LIV
3373
Quasicontractual obligations 1986
3379
Other contingent claims under the Act of 1898 1993
3386
Debts not affected by discharge 1999
3392
CHAPTER LV
3395
Statute runs from breach of contract 2004
3402
successive absences 2009
3408
Tacking disabilities 2014
3414
Divergent views as to the effect of fraudulent concealment 2017
3420
Instalment debts 2024
3426
Contracts for continuous determinate performance 2028
3433
Alternative remedies 2031
3439
Agents 2036
3445
Nature of contract frequently indicates intention 2042
3452
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