ABSTRACT
First Published in 1971. This study is a comparative investigation of contractual obligations in Ghana and Nigeria. It has often been suggested that the law of civil responsibility in West Africa is the same as the current English law position on the subject. This book sets out to examine the basis of this assumption, an exercise which has never been attempted by any previous writer in West African law. The study has been divided into five major parts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |76 pages
Part I
chapter |26 pages
Introduction
chapter |24 pages
Precedent and the Authority of English Decisions
chapter |24 pages
Judicial Precedent in Ghana and Nigeria
part |46 pages
Valid Agreements Two-Party Situations:
chapter |7 pages
The Nature of Agreement
chapter |15 pages
Offer and Acceptance 1
chapter |18 pages
Form and Consideration
chapter |4 pages
Intention to Create Legal Relations
part |48 pages
Valid Agreements: More Than Two Parties
chapter |9 pages
Privity 1
part |89 pages
Defective Agreements
chapter |16 pages
Defects in Reaching an Agreement
chapter |22 pages
Defects in the Validity of an Agreement
chapter |10 pages
Agreements Affected by Informality 1
chapter |18 pages
Agreements Affected by Illegality 1
chapter |14 pages
Agreements That Infringe Public Policy1
chapter |6 pages
Defects Due to Impossibility of Performance
part |82 pages
Obligations Created by Agreements: A Functional Analysis 1