McGregor on damages / by Harvey McGregor.

London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2009.

18th edition

64516

The law of damages.

Damages.

Mayne's Treatise on damages.

Mayne and McGregor on damages.

Damages -- Great Britain.

BOOK 1. General principles

1. Definition, scope, object and terminology

PART I. The heads of compensatory damages

2. Pecuniary losses

3. Non-pecuniary losses

PART II. The limits of compensatory damages

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

PART III. Damages not based strictly on compensation

10. Nominal damages

11. Exemplary damages

12. Restitutionary damages

13. Liquidated damages

PART IV. Various general factors in the assessment of 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 contracts and torts

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

PART I. Contract

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. Building contracts

27. 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

PART II. Tort

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 institution of legal proceedings

39. Defamation

40. Economic torts

41. Misrepresentation

42. Invasion of privacy and misfeasance in public office. BOOK 3. Human rights

43. Damages under tha Human Rights Act. BOOK 4. Procedure

44. The statement of case

45. The trial

46. Appeals.

Table of contents is taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes index.

9781847034984

clv, 1981 pages ; 24 cm