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• Title:The construction of contracts : interpretation, implication, and rectification / Gerard McMeel.
  
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• Author/Creator:McMeel, Gerard.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KD1554 .M45 2007 (LC)
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Contracts--Great Britain--Interpretation and construction.
  
• Description:lvii, 584 p. ; 26 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 557-564) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780199277933 (acid-free paper)
  
• Contents:1. Principles and policies
  2. Theoretical and comparative perspectives
  3. objective principle of construction
  4. Internal context : the whole contract approach
  5. External context : surrounding circumstances, 'matrix', and 'parol evidence'
  6. Standard form contracts, public policy, and the realms of strict construction and strict compliance
  7. Presumptions
  8. Maxims
  9. New horizons : good faith, contractual discretions, and human flights
  10. Implication by law : general default rides
  11. Implication in fact : ad hoc gap-fillers
  12. Custom and usage
  13. Technical and legal language
  14. Formation and certainty
  15. Incorporation of terms
  16. Parties, third party effects, and clauses precluding assignment
  17. Rectification and correcting mistakes through construction
  18. Common assumptions, Estoppel by Convention, and Estoppel by Deed
  19. Construction and mistake as a vitiating factor
  20. Conditions, warranties, and indemnities
  21. Exemption clauses
  22. Change of circumstances and 'force majeure' clauses
  23. Modification of remedies : express termination, liquidated damages, and no set-off clauses
  24. integrity of the instrument : 'entire agreement' and 'non-reliance' clauses
  25. status of instruments : forgeries, deliberate alteration, Non est factum, and shams
  26. Evidence : documents, originals, and copies.