Using Commercial Contracts – a Practical Guide for Engineers and Project Managers

<p>About the Author vii</p>
<p>Preface ix</p>
<p>Foreword xiii</p>
<p>Cases Referred to xv</p>
<p>Statutes Referred to xxvii</p>
<p>1 The Law in General 1</p>
<p>2 The Start Using an Agent 11</p>
<p>3 The Organisation 29</p>
<p>4 Making the Contract Part 1 The Requirements 37</p>
<p>5 Making the Contract Part 2 Offer and Acceptance 55</p>
<p>6 Words in Contracts Part 1 Words Used Pre–Contract 79</p>
<p>7 Words in Contracts Part 2 Post–Contract 93</p>
<p>8 The Terms of the Contract 101</p>
<p>9 The Basic Framework Contracts of Sale 117</p>
<p>10 Liability Exemption Clauses 145</p>
<p>11 Factors that May Invalidate a Contract 173</p>
<p>12 Illegal Contracts 189</p>
<p>13 Privity of Contract 205</p>
<p>14 Other Relationships 219</p>
<p>15 Preliminary Agreements and Letters of Intent 229</p>
<p>16 How the Contract Ends 239</p>
<p>17 Remedies for Breach of Contract and Defences to Claims 253</p>
<p>Index 279</p>