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CONTRACTS
CASES AND MATERIALS
Brian Langille
VOLUME I
1998-99
FACULTY OF LAW
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
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Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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CONTRACTS
CASES AND MATERIALS
Brian Langille
VOLUME I
1998-99
FACULTY OF LAW
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
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Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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VOLUME I
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 AN OVERVIEW: Some Thoughts on Law and the Law of Contracts
Fuller and Perdue, "The Reliance Interest in Contract Damages.1.1
A. A. Leff, "Economic Analysis of Law: Some Realism about Normalism".1.2
R. Dworkin, Law's Empire.1.3
R. Heilbroner, The Making of Economic Society.1.4
Questions.1.9
CHAPTER 2 REMEDIES
2.1 DAMAGES
Wertheim v. Chicoutimi Pulp.2.1.1
Peewhouse v. Garland Coal & Mining.2.1.1
Robert Nozick, Anarchy. State and Utopia.2.1.7
Harris, Ogus & Phillips, "Contract Remedies and the Consumer Surplus".2.1.11
Hawkins v. McGee.2.1.15
Fuller and Perdue, "The Reliance Interest in Contract Damages".2.1.18
Bush v. Canfield.2.1.27
Acme Mills & Elevator v. Johnson.2.1.31
Restatement of The Law of Contract s.90.2.1.34
Anglia Television v. Reed.2.1.35
A.I. Ogus, "Damages for Pre-Contractual Expenditure.2.1.37
Bowlav Logging v. Domtar.2.1.38
Posner, Economic Analysis of Law.2.1.41
I. Macneil, "Efficient Breach of contract: Circles in the Sky".2.1.42
Dworkin, Law's Empire.2.1.45
Deglman v. Guarantee Trust.2.1.46
Moses v. Macferlan.2.1.49
Ruxlev Electronics and Constructions Ltd..2.1.50
2.2 SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE
R.J. Sharpe, Studies in Contract Law.2.2.1
Warner Brothers Pictures Inc, v. Nelson.2.2.2
Kronman, "Specific Performance".2.2.7
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Schwartz, "The Case for Specific Performance".2.2.12
Brown, "Contract Remedies in a Planned Economy: Labour Arbitration
Leads the Way".2.2.17
Wroth v. Tvler.2.2.22
Behnke v. Bede Shipping Co..2.2.29
Co-operative Insurance Society Ltd, v. Argyll Stores (Holdings) Ltd.
(Court of Appeal).2.2.30
Co-operative Insurance Society Ltd, v, Argyll Stores (Holdings) Ltd.
(House of Lords).2.2.36
Semelhago v. Paramadevan.2.2.53
2.3 REMOTENESS/FORESEEABILITY
Hadley v. Baxendale. 2.3.1
Danzig, "Hadlev v. Baxendale: A Study in the Industrialization of the
Law".2.3.3
Fuller & Eisenberg, Basic Contract Law.2.3.5
Atiyah, The Rise and Fall of Freedom of Contract.2.3.6
Victoria Laundry v. Newman Industries.2.3.9
Koufos v. Czamikow (The Heron II).....2.3.15
Cornwall Gravel v. Purolator Courier Ltd..2.3.22
2.4 INTANGIBLE INJURIES
Addis v. Gramophone Co..2.4.1
Jarvis v. Swans Tours Ltd..2.4.4
Beatty, "Labour is not a Commodity".2.4.7
Vorvis v. Insurance Corporation of British Columbia.2.4.13
Malik v. B.C.C.I..2.4.27
Wallace v. United Grain Growers Ltd..2.4.59
2.5 MITIGATION
Pavzu Ltd, v. Saunders.2.5.1
Finelli v. Dee.2.5.5
Asamera Oil Corp. v. Sea Oil & General Corp..2.5.7
White and Carter tCouncilsl v. McGregor.2.5.16
CHAPTER 3 THE THRESHOLD OF ENFORCEABILITY
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3.1 INTRODUCTION
Fuller, "Consideration and Form".3.1.1
M.A. Eisenberg, "The Bargain Principle and Its Limits. 3.1.20
Christie v- York Corporation.3.1.26
3.2 BARGAIN THEORY
C. Fried. Contract As Promise.3.2.1
White v. Bluett.3.2.8
Hohfeld, "Fundamental Legal Conceptions" Chart.3.2.9
Thomas v. Thomas.3.2.10
Hamer v. Sidwav.3.2.12
Milner, Huck Finn reference.3.2.14
Dalhousie College v, Boutilier Estate.3.2.15
The Santanita.3.2.24
Milner, "Note on the History of Consideration".3.2.25
Fuller & Eisenberg, "Note on the History of Contract in the Common
Law".3.2.27
Great Northern Railway Co. v. Witham.3.2.34
Firm Offer Note.3.2.37
Greenberg v. Lake Simcoe Ice Supply Co..3.2.39
Tobias v. Dick T. Eaton Co..3.2.41
Wood v. Lucy. Lady Duff-Gordon.3.2.43
3.3 PAST CONSIDERATION
Lampleigh v. Brathwait.3.3.1
Roscorla v. Thomas.3.3.2
Poa On v. Lau Yiu Long.3.3.3
Note on Infants' Contracts and the Effect of the Statute of Limitations.3.3.6
3.4 COMPROMISES
Cook v. Wright.3.4.1
Alliance Bank v. Broom.3.4.3
Fairgrief v. Ellis.3.4.5
3.5 INTENTION TO CREATE LEGAL RELATIONS
Weeks v. Tvbald.3.5.1
Balfour v. Balfour.3.5.1
Jones v. Padavatton.3.5.5
I Jpton-On-Sevem Rural District Council v. Powell.3.5.11
R. Unger, "The Critical Legal Studies Movement".3.5.12
C. Dalton, "Deconstructing contract Doctrine".3.5.15
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3.6 RELIANCE
Harris v. Watson. 3.6.1
Stilk v. Mvrick.3.6.2
Smith v. Dawson.3.6.3
Gilbert Steel Ltd, v. University Constructions Ltd..3.6.4
Wishing Well.3.6.8
Aivazian, Trebilcock & Penny, "The Law of Contract Modifications: The Uncertain
Quest for a Bench Mark of Enforceability".3.6.9
Owen Sound Public Library Board v. Mial Developments Ltd..3.6.31
Foakes v. Beer.3.6.37
Bank of Nova Scotia v. MacLennan.3.6.40
Note on Dive v. Maningham.3.6.42
Hughes v. Metropolitan Rv. Co..3.6.43
Central London Property Trust Ltd, v. High Trees House Ltd..3.6.50
Combe v. Combe.3.6.54
Imperator Realty Co. v. Tull. 3.6.57
D. & C. Builders v. Rees.3.6.60
Crabb v. A run District Council.3.6.64
Loranger v. Haines.3.6.70
3.7 UNILATERAL CONTRACTS
Carill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co..3.7.1
Errington v. Errington.3.7.5
Dawson v. Helicopter Exploration Co..3.7.6
3.8 MISREPRESENTATION
Heilbut. Svmons v. Buckleton.3.8.1
Redgrave v. Hurd.3.8.7
Leaf v. International Galleries.3.8.15
Murray v. Sperrv Rand.3.8.17
Ranger v. Herbert A. Watts (Quebec) Ltd..3.8.21
Hedlev Bvme v. Heller.3.8.22
Esso Petroleum Co. v. Mardon.3.8.27
Nunes Diamonds v. Dominion Electric Co..3.8.33
R.C. Hydro v. B.G. Checo.3.8.39
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CHAPTER 4 CONTRACT FORMATION
4.1 INTRODUCTION
Note on The Seal.4.1.1
Fuller, "Consideration and Form".4.1.2
4.2 OBJECTIVE THEORY
Grant v. Province of New Brunswick.4.2.1
Smith v. Flughes.4.2.6
Hobbes v. Esquimault & Nanaimo R.v. Co..4.2.10
Bell v. Lever Bros Ltd..4.2.13
Raffles v. Wichelhaus.4.2.14
Grant Gilmore, The Death of Contract.4.2.15
Henkel v. Pape. 4.2.20
A.W.B. Simpson, "Contracts for Cotton To Arrive: The Case of the Two
Ships Peerless".4.2.22
Greenberg v. Meffert et al.4.2.49
4.3 UNSIGNED DOCUMENTS
Parker v. South Eastern Railway.4.3.1
Ollie v. Marlborough Court.4.3.9
Thornton v. Shoe Lane Parking.4.3.10
A Ticket Case.4.3.14
McCutcheon v. MacBravne Ltd.4.3.15
British Crane Hire v. Ispwich Plant Hire.4.3.19
4.4 RULES
Harvev v. Facev.4.4.1
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v. Boots Cash Chemists
(Southern) Ltd..4.4.3
Fisher v. Bell.4.4.5
H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law.4.4.7
Shatford v. B.C. Wine Growers Ltd..4.4.8
Hvde v. Wrench.4.4.9
Household Insurance Co. v. Grant.4.4.10
Henthom v. Fraser.4.4.15
K.N. Llewellin on the Rules of Offer and Acceptance.4.4.17
4.5 BATTLE OF THE FORMS
Butler Machine Tool co. v. Ex-Cell-0 Corp (England) Ltd.4.5.1
R. Unger, "The Critical Legal Studies Movement".4.5.6
