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Promises on Prior Obligations at Common Law

By: Kevin M. Teeven

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Promises on Prior Obligations at Common Law

By: Kevin M. Teeven

An historical analysis of the development and reform of the law of prior obligations as expressed in preexisting duty rule and past consideration rule. Teeven's principal focus is on the judicial rationalization of common law reforms to partially remove the bar to enforcement of promises grounded in the past. This study traces American deviations from English common law doctrine over the past two centuries in developing theories to overcome traditional impediments to recovery presented by the law of prior obligations. It also explores ideas for further reforms found buried in past case law. The growing unease with both the dashing of legitimate consensual expectations and the perceived unfairness to naive, ill-informed, and otherwise disadvantaged parties served as the impetus for liberalization of the exclusive contract bargain test. The resultant reforms adhered to the modern realist emphasis on fairness. The expansion of contractual liability to include promises looking to the past encompasses some of the most important reforms of the consideration contract since its genesis. As a consequence, contractual liability can no longer be defined solely in terms of bargain consideration since contract law now includes a broader range of promissory liability.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1567509495

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A History of the Anglo-American Common Law of Contract

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A History of the Anglo-American Common Law of Contract

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This first booklength survey of the 800-year evolution of Anglo-American common law contract begins in 12th-century England and extends to contemporary America, focusing on how procedural, economic, intellectual, and social considerations tempered the form of contract law and analyzing the thought of lawyers and judges throughout the period. Covers Plantagenet royal courts in England to contract law in the context of American urban, industrialized society; reviews public policy, consumerism, and codification; and poses questions about the future direction of contract law.

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Praeger

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0313261512

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Promises on Prior Obligations at Common Law

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Promises on Prior Obligations at Common Law

Promises on Prior Obligations at Common Law

A History of the Anglo-American Common Law of Contract

A History of the Anglo-American Common Law of Contract

Promises on Prior Obligations at Common Law

Promises on Prior Obligations at Common Law

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