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Powell-Smith & Furmston's building contract casebook /

Furmston, M. P.

Powell-Smith & Furmston's building contract casebook / Powell-Smith and Furmston's building contract casebook Building contract casebook Michael Furmston. - 5th ed. - West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. - 1 online resource (1 volume)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Formation of the Contract. Letters of Intent -- Costs of Tendering -- Tenders and Estimates -- Incorporation of Documents -- Completion of the Contract -- Performance of the Contract. The Contractor's Obligations -- The Employer's Obligations -- Ownership and Vesting of Materials -- Acceptance and Defects -- Approval and Certificates -- Variations -- Damages for Breach of Construction Contracts -- Prolongation and Disruption Claims -- Liquidated Damages and Extensions of Time -- Discharge of the Contract. Part Introduction -- Release -- Frustration -- Illegality -- Forfeiture Clauses, Repudiation and Determination -- Limitation -- Sub-contracts and Sub-contracting. Assignment and Sub-letting -- Domestic Sub-contractors -- Nominated Sub-contractors -- Building Contracts and the Law of Tort. Building Contracts and the Law of Tort -- Table of Cases -- Index. Letters of intent -- Costs of tendering -- Tenders and estimates -- Incorporation of documents -- Completion of the contract -- The contractor's obligations -- The employer's obligations -- Ownership and vesting of materials -- Acceptance and defects -- Approval and certificates -- Variations -- Damages for breach of construction contracts -- Prolongation and disruption claims -- Liquidated damages and extensions of time -- Release -- Frustration -- Illegality -- Forfeiture clauses, repudiation and determination -- Limitation -- Assignment and sub-letting -- Domestic sub-contractors -- Nominated sub-contractors -- Building contracts and the law of tort.

The interaction between general principles and the provisions of the standard building and construction contracts is a central feature of construction law. The major part of the law is laid down in decided cases, and construction professionals should be familiar with these cases but the information is scattered throughout a large number of law reports. The fifth edition of Powell Smith and Furmston's Building Contract Casebook is designed to help construction professionals become familiar with those key cases. It brings together a wide range of cases on the main aspects of the law of con.

9781119963905 1119963907 9781119963875 1119963877

10.1002/9781119963905 Wiley InterScience http://www3.interscience.wiley.com


Construction contracts--England--Cases.
Construction contracts--Wales--Cases.
Construction contracts


England
Wales


Trials, litigation, etc.

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