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9780300086973

Changing Your Mind : The Law of Regretted Decisions

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300086973

  • ISBN10:

    0300086970

  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2000-08-11
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

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Summary

When does the law permit you to change your mind and reverse a decision you have made? In this masterful book, a foremost authority on American contract law identifies and discusses the general principles and legal rules that bear on this question. E. Allan Farnsworth also offers suggestions to improve the laws that pertain to regretted decisions.

Author Biography

E. Allan Farnsworth is Alfred McCormack Professor of Law at Columbia University

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Prologue 1(8)
Part I. Commitments
Wanting to Make a Commitment
9(9)
Regretting Being Committed
18(10)
How a Promise Expresses Commitment
28(8)
Why a Promise Should Commit
36(7)
When a Promise Does Commit
43(12)
A Surrogate for an Enigma
55(11)
Wanting to Make a Commitment (Reprise)
66(9)
Enforceable Promises to Make Gifts
75(14)
Commitment Without Promise
89(10)
The Reach of a Commitment
99(10)
The Strength of a Commitment
109(18)
Interlude
120(7)
Part II. Relinquishments and Preclusions
Relinquishment by Performance
127(5)
Relinquishment by Gift
132(11)
What Can Be Given
143(5)
Relinquishment by Renunciation
148(6)
Relinquishment by Waiver
154(9)
Preclusion by Equitable Estoppel and Laches
163(11)
Preclusion by Rejection
174(7)
Preclusion by Election
181(12)
Preclusion by Prescription
193(9)
Epilogue 202(5)
Notes 207(54)
Index 261

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