• Provides thought-provoking analysis and intellectual insight into contract law to encourage students to take their understanding to a deeper level
• Clearly structured with a summary at the start of each chapter, sub-headings, and footnotes, to ensure easy navigation through the narrative text
• The clarity of the narrative brings understanding of complex contractual issues to a wider readership

New to this edition

• The revised contents ensure the text maps even more closely to undergraduate contract courses
• The Online Resource Centre features annual updates and web links, to ensure the reader has access to the latest developments in contract law, while continuing to benefit from Furmston's experience and authority through the textbook

Readership: Undergraduates and postgraduates studying contract law modules as part of their law degree programmes.

M P Furmston, Bencher of Gray's Inn, Emeritus Professor of Law and Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol

""Cheshire, Fifoot & Furmston's Law of Contract is well written, easy to understand and authoritative. It combines an excellent detailed legal analysis with fantastic academic commentary." The Student Law Journal, January 2008"

Review(s) from previous edition

""...for a quick reference guide this is probably the best book available on English contract law" - Litigation

1: Historical introduction
2: Some factors affecting modern contract law
3: The phenomena of agreement
4: Consideration
5: Intention to create legal relations
6: The contents of the contract
7: Unenforceable contracts
8: Mistake
9: Misrepresentation, duress and undue influence
10: Contracts rendered void by statute
11: Contracts illegal by statute or at common law
12: Contracts void at common law on grounds of public policy
13: Capacity of parties
14: Privity of contract
15: Privity of contract under the law of agency
16: The voluntary assignment of contractual rights and liabilities
17: The involuntary assignment on contractual rights and liabilities
18: Performance and breach
19: Discharge by agreement
20: Discharge under the doctrine of frustration
21: Remedies for breach of contract