Mike Shecket’s Notes on
Dawson, Harvey and
CHAPTER 1. REMEDIES FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT
Section 1. The Goals of Contract Damages
Section 2. Limitations on Expectation Damages
Section 3. Alternative
Interests: Reliance and Restitution
Section 4. Contractual Controls on Damages
Section 5. Enforcement in Equity
CHAPTER 2. GROUNDS FOR ENFORCING PROMISES
Section 1. Formality
Section 2. Exchange Through Bargain
Section 3. Promises Grounded in the Past
Section 4. Reliance on a Promise
Section 5. Promises of Limited Commitment
CHAPTER 3. THE MAKING
OF AGREEMENTS
Section 1. Mutual Assent
Section 2. Control Over Contract Formation
Section 3. Precontractual Obligation
Section 4. Conduct Concluding a Bargain
Section 5. The Effects of Adopting a Writing
Section 6. Assent to Standardized Forms
CHAPTER 4. POLICING THE BARGAIN
Introductory Note
Section 1. Competency to Contract
Section 2. Revisions of Contractual Duty
Section 3. Mistake and Misrepresentation
Section 4. Changed Circumstances
Justifying Nonperformance
Section 5. Unconscionable Inequality
CHAPTER 5. THE
MATURING AND BREACH OF CONTRACT DUTIES
Section 1. The Effects of Express Conditions
Section 2. Conditions
of Satisfaction
Section 3. Constructive Conditions: The Order of
Performance
Section 4. Protecting the Exchange on Breach
[1] Dawson, John P., William Burnett Harvey and Stanley D. Henderson. Contracts: Cases and Comment. 8th ed. Foundation Press, 2003.