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Chapter 8 Introduction to Contract Law

Learning Objectives

After reading this chapter, you should understand the following:

  1. Why and how contract law has developed
  2. What a contract is
  3. What topics will be discussed in the contracts chapter of this book
  4. What the sources of contract law are
  5. How contracts are classified (basic taxonomy)