Mistake, fraud and duties to inform in European contract law

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Label

Mistake, fraud and duties to inform in European contract law

Statement of responsibility

edited by Ruth Sefton-Green

Title variation

Mistake, Fraud & Duties to Inform in European Contract Law

Contributor

• Sefton-Green, Ruth

Editor

• Sefton-Green, Ruth

Subject

• Contracts -- Europe
• Fraud -- Europe
• Mistake (Law) -- Europe

Language

eng

Summary

This 2005 examination of twelve case studies about mistake, fraud and duties to inform reveals significant differences about how contract law works in thirteen European legal systems and, despite the fact that the solutions proposed are often similar, what divergent values underlie the legal rules. Whereas some jurisdictions recognise increasing duties to inform in numerous contracts so that the destiny of mistake and fraud (classical defects of consent) may appear to be uncertain, other jurisdictions continue to refuse such duties as a general rule or fail to recognise the need to protect one of the parties where there is an imbalance in bargaining power or information. Avoiding preconceptions as to where and why these differences exist, this book first examines the historical origins and development of defects of consent, then considers the issues from a comparative and critical standpoint

Member of

• Common core of European private law

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

LC call number

KJC1063

LC item number

.M57 2005

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

The common core of European private law