ABSTRACT
This book gives an account of the law which governs the various ways in which goods may be supplied. It is worth spending a moment to explain where this law comes from. Goods are usually, though not always, supplied under a contract (see Chapter 2). English law has a body of rules known as ‘the law of contract’ which, in principle, apply to all contracts of whatever kind. Virtually all readers of this book will already have studied a course on the law of contract or a course on the law of obligations of which the law of contract was a part. In addition to these rules, English law has developed rules which are peculiar to particular contracts, such as sale of goods, hire-purchase, insurance, employment and so on.
