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Eton; Balliol College Oxford. Doctor of Civil Law.
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Principles of the English Law of Contract (Classic Reprint)
(This book is an attempt to draw such an outline of the pr...)
This book is an attempt to draw such an outline of the principles of the law of Contract as may be useful to students, and, perhaps, convenient to those who are engaged in the teaching of law. To some of those who are so engaged it has seemed that there is need of an elementary treatise which should deal with the subject of Contract in its entirety; and the existence of such a need is my excuse for the production of the present work. The main object with which I have set out has been to delineate the general principles which govern the contractual relation from its beginning to its end. I have tried to show how a contract is made, what is needed to make it binding, what its effect is, how its terms are interpreted, and how it is discharged and comes to an end. In thus sketching the history of a contract, I have striven to maintain a due proportion in my treatment of the various parts of the subject, and to avoid entering into the detail of the special kinds of contract. The history and antiquities of the subject have, of necessity, been dealt with only so far as was absolutely necessary to explain existing rules, and I have placed in Appendices what I have to say on two matters the treatment of which seemed to be unavoidable and yet out of place in any part of a merely general outline. One of these is the contract implied in law, or quasicontract. The effect of this legal relation has been fully explained by Mr. Leake (part i.e. i.e. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each p
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William Reynell ANSON
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Fellow of All Souls’, 1867. Barrister 1869; Bencher. Inner Temple, 1900; Vinerian Reader in English Law, 1874-SI.
Unsuccessful candidate for West Staffordshire, 1880.
Warden of All Souls’, 1881. Fellow of Eton College, 1883.
Alderman, City of Oxford, 1892-1896. Chairman of Quarter Sessions for Oxfordshire, 1894.
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, 1898-1899.
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, 1902-1905. 3rd Baronet; cartulary-register 1831. Member of Parliament (Unionist) Oxford University since 1899.
Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery since 1904. Chancellor of the Diocese of Oxford since 1899. Warden of All Souls’ College, Oxford, since 1881.
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Principles of the English Law of Contract (Classic Reprint)
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Principles of the English Law of Contract (Classic Reprint)
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Unionist.
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Clubs: Brooks’s, Athenaeum, Travellers’, Saint James’son
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Heir: Frederick Arthur Anson.
