Foreword |
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Preface |
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xi | |
Table of Cases |
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xix | |
Table of Legislation |
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CHAPTER 1. DECEIT: NATURE, RATIONALE AND FORMULATION |
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Deceit and the House of Lords |
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The nature and rationale of the tort of deceit |
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The formulation of the tort of deceit |
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The ingredients of the tort of deceit |
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Deceit viewed against the genesis of the law of misrepresentation |
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Alternative causes of action based on a fraudulent misrepresentation |
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Deficiencies in the current law of deceit |
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Considerations affecting a restatement of the law of deceit |
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CHAPTER 2. LIES, LAW AND MORALITY |
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Lies and morality's relationship with the law |
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Approaches to the content of a moral rule against lying |
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Fundamental principles and the relevance of reason |
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Lying as a social constant |
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Various moral assessments on lying |
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Absolute condemnations of lying |
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Lies are not always immoral |
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The chief elements for a moral examination of a lie |
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The morality of non-disclosures |
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The influence of morality |
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CHAPTER 3. THE REPRESENTATION |
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The nature of the representation |
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Express and implied representations |
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Representations of existing fact |
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Representations of states of mind |
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Continuing representations |
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The context of the representation |
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The representation must be false |
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CHAPTER 4. EXAMPLES OF REPRESENTATIONS |
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Sale and purchase, leasing and other transactions concerning property |
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Sale and purchase of a business or issue or sale of shares in a company |
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Joint venture and partnership agreements |
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Letters of credit and performance bonds |
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Bills of exchange and financial investments |
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Credit and loan agreements |
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Credit and character references |
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Settlement agreements and releases |
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Cases tantamount to theft |
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Marital and familial fraud |
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CHAPTER 5. FRAUDULENT KNOWLEDGE AND FRAUDULENT INTENTION |
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The representor's intended meaning |
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The second limb of fraudulent knowledge: recklessness |
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Present to the representor's mind |
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Intended manner of reliance |
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A defence based on justification? |
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Reconsideration of the fraudulent intention |
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Dishonesty as an ingredient of the tort |
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CHAPTER 6. THIRD PARTIES |
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Representations by third parties |
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Procuring a fraudulent misrepresentation |
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The agent's representations prior to the principal's authority |
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The agent's personal liability |
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Representation to third parties |
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CHAPTER 7. INDUCEMENT |
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Inducement and the resultant damage: two types of causation |
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The representation need not be the sole inducement |
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The strong and weak senses of inducement |
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Early judicial statements |
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Later judicial statements |
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The case for a requirement of strong inducement |
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The representee's negligence or means of knowledge |
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CHAPTER 8. REMEDIES FOR DECEIT |
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Causation, remoteness and mitigation |
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Date at which damages assessed |
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Loss-making and profitable transactions |
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Section 2(1) of the Misrepresentation Act 1967 |
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Contributory deceit and public policy |
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Exemplary and aggravated damages |
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The nature and effect of the remedies |
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The legal and equitable rights |
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The traditional bars to equitable relief |
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Proprietary restitutionary remedies |
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Exclusion of liability for deceit |
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Statute of Frauds Amendment Act 1828 |
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The accrual of the cause of action in deceit |
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CHAPTER 9. TOWARDS A RESTATEMENT OF THE TORT OF DECEIT |
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Testing the boundaries of the tort of deceit |
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A suggested restatement of the law of deceit |
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Index |
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