ABSTRACT
Have you made a contract today, or this week? If you have not studied the law of contract at all, then your answer may well be ‘no’, since the law of contract may conjure up images of long, complicated forms for the sale of houses, loan agreements, exchange of businesses, etc. However, contracts exist in much more humble settings, beginning with everyday actions such as buying a packet of crisps or making a bus journey, and so the law concerning it has simple foundations. Yet this basic law of everyday contracts with which we will be concerned during much of this book, covers all kinds of situations from simple shopping to large commercial deals, and the cases which lay down the rules are equally wide in the matters which they cover.
