McGregor on damages / by Harvey McGregor.

London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2003.

17th edition

24310

The law of damages.

Damages.

Mayne and McGregor on damages.

Mayne's Treatise on damages.

Damages -- Great Britain.

BOOK 1. General principles:

1. Definition, scope, object and terminology

2. Pecuniary losses

3. Non-pecuniary losses

4. The general problem of limits

5. Reduction of damges for contributory negligence

6. Remoteness of damage

7. Mitigation of damage

8. Certainty of damage

9. Past and prospective damage

10. Nominal damages

11. Exemplary damages

12. Restitutionary damages

13. Liquidated damages

14. The incidence of taxation

15. The awarding of interest

16. The effect of changes in value

17. The recovery of costs, damages and fines incurred in previous proceedings

18. Damages in actions surviving death

BOOK 2. Particular claims:

19. The measure of damages in contract and in tort compared

20. Sale of goods

21. Hire and hire-purchase of goods

22. Sale of land

23. Lease of land

24. Sale of shares and loan of stock

25. Contracts to pay or to lend money

26. Contracts of carriage

28. Contracts of employment

29. Contracts for professional and other services

30. Contracts concerning principal and agent

31. Contracts of warranty of authority by agent

32. Torts affecting goods: damage and destruction

33. Torts affecting goods: misappropriation

34. Torts affecting land

35. Torts causing personal injury

36. Torts causing death

37. Assault and false imprisonment

38. Malicious prosecution and cognate torts

39. Defamation

40. Economic torts

41. Misrepresentation

42. Human rights

BOOK 3. Procedure:

43. The statement of case

44. The trial

45. Appeals.

Chapter 42 on the Human Rights Act contributed by Martin Spencer.

Chapters 43-45 on procedure revised by Julian Picton.

Includes index.

042184020X

cxvii, 1739 pages