Contract Law
Third Edition
TT Arvind
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Part I: Forming Contracts
2. Bargaining and agreeing: offer, acceptance, and formation
3. Consideration: the requirement of mutuality
4. Contracts and informal relations: the intention to create legal relations
5. Non-contractual promises: promissory and proprietary estoppel
Part II: Keeping Contracts
6. Assembling the contract: representations, terms, and incorporation
7. Interpreting the terms: construction, rectification, and mutual mistake
8. Filling the gaps: implied terms
9. Flexible terms: uncertainty, vagueness, and incompleteness
10. Fundamental changes: frustration and common mistake
Part III: Regulating Contracts
11. Untrue statements: misrepresentation and unilateral mistake
12. The limits of hard bargaining: duress and undue influence
13. Controlling contract terms: exclusion clauses, penalties, and consumer protection
14. Protecting the public interest: the doctrine of illegality
Part IV: Enforcing Contracts
15. Breach of contract: repudiation and the right to terminate
16. Compensatory remedies: damages for breach of contract
17. Non-compensatory remedies: specific performance, debt, and restitution
18. Privity and third parties: protecting the rights of non-parties