Commercial Contracts
A Practical Guide to Deals, Contracts, Agreements and Promises

Chris Thorpe (Author), John Bailey (Author)

9781855732506

Hardback, published 31 July 1996

280 pages
23.3 x 15.6 x 2.2 cm, 0.71 kg

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 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.

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.

Subject Areas: Commercial law [LNCB]