LAW OF OBLIGATIONS AND LEGAL REMEDIES Second Edition CP Cavendish Publishing Limited London • Sydney LAW OF OBLIGATIONS AND LEGAL REMEDIES Second Edition Geoffrey Samuel MA, LLB, PhD (Cantab) Dr (Maastricht) Professor of Law, Kent Law School University of Kent at Canterbury CP Cavendish Publishing Limited London • Sydney Second edition first published in Great Britain 2001 by Cavendish Publishing Limited, The Glass House, Wharton Street, London WC1X 9PX, United Kingdom Telephone: + 44 (0)20 7278 8000 Facsimile: + 44 (0)20 7278 8080 Email:
[email protected] Website: www.cavendishpublishing.com © Samuel, G 2001 First edition 1996 Second edition 2001 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except under the terms of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 9HE, UK, without the permission in writing of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Samuel, Geoffrey, 1947– Law of Obligations and Legal Remedies – 2nd ed 1 Obligations (Law) – England 2 Obligations (Law) – Wales 3 Remedies (Law) – England 4 Remedies (Law) – Wales I Title II Obligations and legal remedies 346.4'2'02 ISBN 1 85941 566 0 Printed and bound in Great Britain PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION This book is, in some respects, a re-orientated version of our monograph Contractual and non-contractual obligations in English law published by Ars Aequi Libri in the Netherlands in 1992 (published also in a student edition: The English law of obligations in comparative context, 1991).