Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. Contractual Mistake in Roman Law: From Justinian to the Natural Lawyers -- 3. Contractual Mistake in English Law: Mistake in Equity before 1875 -- 4. Lack of Contractual Mistake at Common Law and the Nineteenth-century Transformation of Procedure -- 5. Pothier and the Development of Mistake in English Contract Law -- 6. Von Savigny and the Development of Mistake in English Contract Law -- 7. Creation of Contractual Mistake in Nineteenth-century Common Law -- 8. Mistake of Identity -- 9. Mistake after Fusion -- 10. Summary and Conclusions.

Beginning with an overview of contractual mistake in Roman law, this title examines how theories of mistake were received at various points into English contract law from Roman and civil law sources.