Table of Contents
1 Prologue: The Prehistory of the English Law of ObligationsPervasive IdeasPenalties and EntitlementsWrongs: Dishonour and LossThe Economy of ExchangeOaths: Threats and PromisesContracts and Personal BondsObligations in Roman LawDelictContractQuasi-ContractQuasi-Delict2 Structural FoundationsLiability for Wrongdoing: Damage and DishonourGlanvill and the Law of DebtCovenant and a Law of Contract3 Unity and Fragmentation of the Mediaeval Law of ContractThe Formalization of CovenantCovenant and the Conditional BondThe Fragmentation of Remedies for Informal Contracts4 Trespass, Trespass on the Case, and the Mediaeval Law of TortThe Core of Trespass: Forcible WrongdoingContractual Misperformance and Non-forcible WrongsThe Origins of Trespass on the Case5 The Substantive Law of TortsStrict Liability and the Role of FaultThe Scope of Trespassory Liability6 The Substantive Law of ContractVoluntariness, Agreement, and the Formation of ContractsThe Boundaries of ContractExpectations, Entitlements, and Liability for Breach of ContractPart 2 The Triumph of Trespass on the Case7 Tort, Property, and Reputation: the Expansion of the Action on the CaseNuisanceTrover and ConversionTort and Reputation: Defamation8 The Rise of the Action of AssumpsitTrespass on the Case and Contractual LiabilityContract and Tort: the Action of AssumpsitAssumpsit and the Theory of ContractThe Formal Structure of Contractual LitigationPart 3 The Modern Law of Tort and Contract9 Trespass, Case, and the Moral Basis of LiabilityTrespass and Case: the Formal DivisionThe Crystallisation of Neglligence10 The Law of Torts in the Nineteenth Century: The rise of the Tort of NegligenceThe Tort of NegligenceThe Fragmentation of the Law of Tort11 The Law of Torts in the Twentieth Century: Expansion and Collapse of the Tort of NegligenceThe Unity of the Tort of NegligenceNegligence and its Satellites12 Foundations of the Modern Law of ContractThe Model of ContractThe Theory of Contract13 The Rise of the Will TheoryThe Will Theory and the Classical Model of ContractThe Will Theory and the Model of Exchange14 The Decline of the Will Theory: Legal Regulation and Contractual FairnessInternal Weakness of the Will TheoryUndercutting the Will of the PartiesPart 4 Unjust Enrichment15 Unjust EnrichmentUnjust Enrichment before Lord MansfieldImplied Trusts and Implied ContractsQuasi-Contract, Restitution, and Unjust Enrichment16 Legal Change and Legal ContinuityPrologue: The Prehistory of the English Law of ObligationsI Form and Substance in Medieveal Law1. Structural Foundations2. Unity and Fragmentation of the Mediaeval Law of Contract3. Trespass, Trespass on the Case, and the Mediaeval Law of Tort4. The Substantive Law of Torts5. The Substantive Law of Contract2 The Triumph of Trespass on the Case6. Tort, Property, and Reputation: the Expansion of the Action on the Case7. The Rise of the Action of Assumpsit3 The Modern Law of Tort and Contract8. Trespass, Case, and the Moral Basis of Liability9. The Law of Torts in the Nineteenth Century: The Rise of the Tort of Negligence10. The Law of Torts in the Twentieth Century: Expansion and Collapse of the Tort of Negligence11. Foundations of the Modern Law of Contract12. The Rise of the Will Theory13. The Decline of the Will Theory: Legal Regulation and Contractual Fairness4 Unjust Enrichment14. Unjust Enrichment15. Legal Change and Legal Continuity
