TY - BOOK ID - 78531554 TI - Agreements : a philosophical and legal study PY - 2012 SN - 1107226104 1139365657 1280647361 1139378198 9786613633415 1139375334 1139047167 1139376764 1139379623 1139371347 9781139379625 9781139376761 0521885604 9780521885607 9781139375337 9781139047166 PB - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Contracts KW - Agreements KW - Contract law KW - Contractual limitations KW - Limitations, Contractual KW - Commercial law KW - Legal instruments KW - Obligations (Law) KW - Juristic acts KW - Liberty of contract KW - Third parties (Law) KW - Philosophy. KW - Law and legislation KW - Philosophy KW - Law KW - General and Others KW - Contracts - England KW - Contracts - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78531554 AB - Combining rigorous philosophical analysis with a deep knowledge of law, this study of agreements illuminates legal doctrine by philosophical theory and vice versa. Against the prevailing philosophical view of agreements, the book argues that they are to be understood in terms not of promises but of offer and acceptance. Topics covered include the obligations associated with agreements; the practical reasoning that leads parties to make and perform agreements; the relation between agreement and intention; and the reasons the State has to intervene in agreements. There are also separate chapters devoted to doctrines of agreement in the laws of contract, competition and conspiracy. ER -