Subjects:

Commercial Law

Contents:

Definitions and characteristics

Contractual requirements

Formal requirements

Construction

Vitiating elements in the contract

The liability of the surety

Enforcement of contracts of suretyship

Revocation of contracts of suretyship

Discharge of the surety

Rights of the surety against the principal

Rights of the surety against the creditor

Rights of the surety against co-sureties

Insolvency

Bank guarantees and related transactions

International commerce

Performance bonds

Consumer credit transactions

Landlord and tenant

Precedents

Appendix legislation

Regarded as the leading work on guarantees, this book discusses the law relating to contracts where one party agrees to be answerable for debts or obligations of another to a third party. It deals with guarantees in loans, consumer credit, hire purchase, landlord and tenant, building contracts and commercial contracts.