コービン教授の米国契約法体系 改訂版
Corbin on Contracts, Revised Edition
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事実と法を綿密に分析し、正確かつ平明な言葉で解説された本書は、契約法のみならず米国法学界に多大な影響を及ぼした名著とされています。契約の意思理論への批判を始めとする一連の画期的な論文、エール大学での多年に渡る研究成果の集大成として退官直後の1950年に完成された本書は、その後、UCCの制定と数次の改訂、リステイトメントの改訂、ウィーン売買条約の成立等の大きな進展に対応するために、1963年、1993年に全面改訂を行っています。1993年よりペリロ教授、現在はマレー教授と当代一流の契約法研究者によって校訂が引き継がれています。
【Table of Contents】
1. Preliminary Definitions
PART I: FORMATION OF CONTRACTS
TOPIC A. OFFER AND ACCEPTANCE
2. Offers; Creation and Duration of Power of Acceptance
3. Acceptance and Rejection of Offer
4. Indefiniteness and Mistake in Expression
TOPIC B. CONSIDERATION
5. Reasons for Enforcement of Promises; Acts, Forbearances and Promises Given in Exchange
6. Consideration - Mutuality of Obligation - Requirements and Output Contracts - Effect of Option
7. Consideration - Effect of Pre-Existing Duty
TOPIC C. INFORMAL CONTRACTS WITHOUT MUTUAL ASSENT OR CONSIDERATION
8. Reliance on a Promise as Ground for Enforcement: The Doctrine of Promissory Estoppel
9. Past Consideration and Moral obligation
TOPIC D. FORMAL CONTRACTS
10. Contracts Under Seal, Recognizances, Negotiable Instruments and Documents, and Letters of Credit
11. Option Contracts and Rights of First Refusal - The Legal Relations of the Parties
PART II: STATUTE OF FRAUDS
12. History and Legal Operation of the Statute
13. Statute of Frauds - Oral Variation or Rescission; Contracts Partly Within
14. Statute of Frauds - Manner of Raising Defense; Remedies of Restitution and Reformation
15. Statute of Frauds - Debts of Another - Suretyship and Guaranty
16. Debts of Another - Leading Object Rule - Indemnity Contracts
17. Statute of Frauds - Interests in Land
18. Interests in Land - Effect of Part Performance of Oral Contract
19. Statute of Frauds - Contracts Not to Be Performed Within One Year
20. Statute of Frauds - Contracts in Consideration of Marriage
21. Statute of Frauds - Contracts for the Sale of Goods
22. Substance of the Memorandum: Its Nature and Contents
23. Formal Requirements - Writing - Signature - Oral Evidence
PART III: INTERPRETATION - PAROL EVIDENCE - AVOIDANCE AND REFORMATION
24. Interpretation of Contracts
25. The "Parol Evidence Rule"
26. Implied Terms, Default Rules, and the Concept of Good Faith
27. Capacity of Parties
28. Avoidance or Reformation for Misconduct or Mistake
29. Unconscionability and the Duty to Read
PART IV: CONSTRUCION AND LEGAL OPERATION OF CONTRACT - CONDITIONS OF LEGAL DUTY
30. Definitions and Terminology - Conditions Classified
31. Express Conditions - And Promises
32. Constructive Conditions - Failure to Perform the Agreed Exchange
33. Constructive Conditions in Sale of Goods
33A. Constructive Conditions in Sale of Land
34. Constructive Conditions in Service Contracts, Charter Parties, and Leases
35. Conditions in Installment Contract - Divisibility
36. Substantial Performance, Its Character and Effect
37. Conditions of Performance on Time - Condition of Notice
38. Aleatory Contracts - No Agreed Exchange of Performances
39. Conditions Subsequent - Analysis - Pleading and Burden of Proof
40. Elimination of Conditions by Waiver or Prevention
PART V: RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES - ASSIGNMENT - JOINT AND SEVERAL CONTRACTS
TOPIC A. THIRD PARYT BENEFICIARIES
41. Preliminary Analysis - Issues and Terminology
42. Third Party Beneficiary History
43. Third Party Beneficiary Statutes
44. Intent to Benefit-Restatements-Interpretation
45. Beneficiaries of Specific Types of Contracts
46. Remedies, Powers, and Defenses-Beneficiary, Promisee, and Promisor
TOPIC B. ASSIGNMENT
47. Preliminary Analysis-Concepts, Terminology, Source of Law
48. Gift Assignments
49. Assignability and Delegability-Freedom and its Limitations
50. Conditional and Future Rights, and After-Acquired Property
51. Legal Effects of Assignment-Defenses and Priorities
TOPIC C. JOINT AND SEVERAL CONTRACTS
52. Joint and Several Contracts
PART VI: BREACH OF CONTRACT - JUDICIAL REMEDIES
TOPIC A. BREACH OF CONTRACT
53. Varieties of Breach - Partial, Total
54. Breach of Contract by Anticipatory Repudiation
TOPIC B. DAMAGES AS A REMEDY FOR BREACH
55. Purpose and Extent of Damages - Causation - Compensation - Value
56. Foreseeability - Anticipated Profits - Degrees of Uncertainty
57. Alternative Measures - Expenditures - Avoidable Consequences - Interest - Anticipatory Breach
58. Liquidated Damages and Penalties
59. Mental Suffering - Punitive Damages - Lending Money - Alternative of Contracts - Contracts for Benefit of Third Person
60. Building Contracts - Employment - Sales of Land - Sales of Goods
TOPIC C. RESTITUTION AS A REMEDY FOR BREACH
61. Common Law and Equity - General Requirements for Obtaining Restitution
62. Restitution in Favor of a Plaintiff in Default
TOPIC D. SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE
63. Adequacy of Other Remedies
64. Special Reasons for Refusing Specific Enforcement
65. Mutuality of Remedy - Negative Contracts - Liquidated Damages
TOPIC E. ELECTION OF REMEDIES
66. Election of Remedies
PART VII: DISCHARGE AND IMPOSSIBILITY
TOPIC A. DISCHARGE OF CONTRACT
67. Performance - Tender - Rescission - Release - Gift - Surrender - Cancellation - Contract Not to Sue
68. Discharge by Nonperformance of Condition - Breach - Failure of Consideration - Prevention - Power Reserved - Condition Subsequent
69. The Legal Operation of An Executory Accord
70. Accord and Satisfaction
71. Substituted Contract and Novation
72. Account Stated
73. Specialties - Alteration - Judgment - Award – Claim Preclusion
TOPIC B. IMPOSSIBILITY
74. Impossibility of Performance - Personal Inability
75. Death or Destruction of Specific Things; Prorating Available Supply
76. Legal Prohibition - Government Prohibition and Exigencies of War
77. Discharge by Frustration of Purpose
78. Impossibility of Performance of a Condition; Restitution in Cases of Impossibility
PART VIII: CONTRACTS CONTRARY TO PUBLIC POLICY
79. Introduction to Contracts Contrary to Public Policy
80. Contracts in Restraint of Competition
81. Contracts involving Familial Relationships
82. Sunday Contracts
83. Bargains Harmful to the Administration of Justice
84. Bargains Harmful to the Public Service or to the Performance of Fiduciary Duty
85. Bargains to Defraud or Otherwise Injure Third Persons
86. Wagering Bargains
87. Usury Bargains
88. Miscellaneous Bargains Contrary to Public Policy
89. The Effects of Being Contrary to Public Policy and The Availability of Restitution
Index