Commercial Contracts
A Practical Guide to Deals, Contracts, Agreements and Promises
- 1st Edition - July 31, 1996
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Authors: Chris Thorpe, John Bailey
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 8 5 5 7 3 - 2 5 0 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 8 4 5 6 9 - 8 9 8 - 0
This book aims to explain the principles of contract law for the businessman, and to put those principles into their commercial context. Anyone involved in commercial transactions… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis book aims to explain the principles of contract law for the businessman, and to put those principles into their commercial context. Anyone involved in commercial transactions needs at least a basic understanding of the principles of contract law – the legal framework for all commercial activity. A lack of such a basic understanding at best results in a business which is less competitive and ultimately less profitable than it should be, and at worst can have expensive and sometimes disastrous commercial consequences.
Anyone involved in commercial transaction
What is a contract? Parties; Entering in to a contract; The terms of a contract; Standard terms and conditions; The interpretation of a contract; Performance and non-performance; Legal remedies for breach of contract; The shadow of litigation and insolvency; Invalid contracts; The involvement third parties; International transactions, the broader picture.
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 31, 1996
- No. of pages (Hardback): 280
- No. of pages (eBook): 280
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9781855732506
- eBook ISBN: 9781845698980
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