Calamari and Perillo on Contracts (Hornbook Series Student Edition) | 
| Authors: Joseph M. Perillo, John D. Calamari
Publisher: West Group
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 29344
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 5
Pages: 1052
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.9
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7.8 x 2
ISBN: 031426485X
Dewey Decimal Number: 346.7302
EAN: 9780314264855
ASIN: 031426485X
Publication Date: August 2003
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Expert authors provide a detailed treatment of the basic rules, principles, and issues in contracts. Topics covered include offer and acceptance, parol evidence and interpretation, consideration, informal contracts, promissory estoppel, contracts under seal, capacity of parties, conditions, performance, and breach. Also discusses damages, regulations, third-party beneficiaries, statutes, and frauds. The discharge of contracts and illegal bargains are also discussed.
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 Excellent hornbook May 14, 2001
John S. Ryan (Silver Lake, OH)
37 out of 39 found this review helpful
If you're a One-L looking for a study aid for your Contracts class, you won't find a better hornbook than this one. Calamari's classic text provides clear and intelligible discussion of the basic principles of contract law.Also consider the student edition of E. Allan Farnsworth's treatise on Contracts; the original was three volumes long, but the student edition is condensed to one. Farnsworth's discussion is more in-depth, wide-ranging, and denser than Calamari's, so I used Calamari to get principles clear and then turned to Farnsworth for elaboration. Get both if you can; otherwise get this one first. That's my recommendation, anyway.
Clear and concise! September 8, 1999
21 out of 28 found this review helpful
This book was a savior as I studied Contracts. It is well written, interesting, and very well organized.
 No So Good July 10, 2001
KC Reviews (Washington, DC)
17 out of 31 found this review helpful
As fair as studies aids go, this one is not very good. While concise and simple, the book really lacks the aid aspect. This book is like buying a textbook and reading it. In addition, I felt it times it wasn't very useful. I would read the UCC (especially 2-207) material and feel like I wasn't any better off than when I left class. I would buy instead the Emmanuel's and/or the Emmanuel Flash Cards if you want a stronger study aid. Unlike those additions, this book lacks the useful charts and acronyms that help when you're trying to remember the series of questions to ask yourself on the exam. In essence, if you are going to buy only one guide, and you don't need a second textbook, don't buy this one. However, if you haven't been going to your first year classes this is a good book to buy.
VERY GOOD OVERVIEW OF U.S. CONTRACT LAW February 28, 2002
Luciano Lupini (Caracas Venezuela)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book is a must for lawyers and scholars from the continental law area because it provides a clear and general overview of the fundamental issues related with contract law.
For those that want to explore more in depth specific issues, then professor Farnsworth's Treatise on the subject would be the reference text. For legal students in the common law sistem it gives a very useful approach to the subject matter.
 Best Hornbook I Own November 5, 2004
Jim 'n Em (Law-Law Land)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
And I own far too many, especially for someone who actually spends time writing Amazon reviews.
This book does a great job of explaining the policy and history-succinctly-behind most of the rules and theories we've covered in class and in the casebook.
I think this is my favorite hornbook, but I give it four stars for not giving as much insight into specific cases as other hornbooks do.
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