Contract as Promise A Theory of Contractual Obligation

Name: Contract as Promise A Theory of Contractual Obligation
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ISBN: 9780674169302

ISBN-10: 0674169301

ISBN-13: 9780674169302

Edition: 1981

Authors: Charles Fried

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This book displays the underlying structure of a complex body of law and integrates that structure with moral principles. Charles Fried grounds the basic legal institution of contract in the morality of promise, under which individuals incur obligations freely by invoking each other's trust. Contract law and the promise principle are contrasted to the socially imposed obligations of compensation, restitution, and sharing, which determine the other basic institutions of private law, and which come into control where the parties have not succeeded in invoking the promise principle--as in the case of mistake or impossibility. Professor Fried illustrates his argument with a wide range of…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 1981
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/15/1982
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Charles Fried is Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard University.



Prologue


Words and Acts Tools and Paradigms Keywords


Utility


The Puzzling Failure of Jeremy Bentham


Antimetaphysics Influence Quicksands of Expediency


The Frame of Political Argument


Natural Rights


Declarations A State of Nature Delimiting


Rights Certain Political Rituals Revival


The People


Mechanics and Majorities Popular Sovereignty Revolutionary Assemblies


The Identity of the People


Government


The Rhetoric of Counterrevolution


A Christian Party In Politics Property Reconsidered


Human Rights and Sacred Obligations


The People Deposed


The State


Professional Political Science Constitutional Law


The Grammar of a Profession Webs of Contradiction


The Uses of an Abstraction


Interests


Highbrow and Lowbrow


The Common Good Utilitarianism Redivivus Empirical Political Science


The Disappearing Public


The Rhetoric of Realism


Epilogue


The Conflations of Freedom Rights without Retrospection Public Talk


Notes


Guide To Further Reading


Index