English Contract Law - History

History

  • Roman law and pacta sunt servanda
  • Assumpsit, Slade's case (1602) 76 ER 1074, Bret v JS (1600) Cro Eliz 756 and Assumption of responsibility
  • Courts of Chancery
  • Forms of action
  • Lex mercatoria and the Hanseatic League
  • Sir Edward Coke
  • Sir John Holt (Chief Justice 1689 to 1710) and Lord Mansfield
  • Faust and Christopher Marlowe, The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus (1604)
  • Robert Browning Pied Piper of Hamelin (1842)
  • Laissez faire
  • Indian Contract Act 1872 (c 9)
  • F Kessler, 'Contracts of Adhesion—Some Thoughts About Freedom of Contract (1943) 43(5) Columbia Law Review 629
  • MJ Horwitz, 'The historical foundations of modern contract law' (1974) 87(5) Harvard Law Review 917
  • AWB Simpson, 'The Horwitz Thesis and the History of Contracts' (1979) 46(3) The University of Chicago Law Review 533
  • PS Atiyah, The Rise and Fall of Freedom of Contract (Oxford 1979)
  • AWB Simpson, A History of the Common Law of Contract: the Rise of the Action of Assumpsit (1987)
  • European Union and the Principles of European Contract Law 2003
  • UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts

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