Fill the gaps by adding a suffix to the word in brackets.

One of the … (interest) complexities of English contract law is that it bears the marks of two … (differ) conceptions of how a contract is formed, which derive from two different periods of English legal history. On the one hand, most legal … (history) agree that up until the nineteenth century the predominant conception of a contract in England was as a mechanism of exchange: giving something of value entitled one to something in return. When, on the other hand, the first contract textbooks came to be written in the late eighteen and early nineteenth centuries - the era when the teaching of … (nation) law began in English universities - authors drew inspiration from continental authors, especially the French legal academics Pothier and Domat. These authors developed structures and ideas in their work … (design) to describe the French law of contract, based … (large) on … (Rome) law as developed by medieval thinkers.

3. Choose the right preposition in brackets according to the contents of the sentences(on, as, between, upon, to, into, from, by, of).

1. Contract law has come to us … common law and it is said that it is an offspring of tort law.

2. Contracts, … the other hand, are a mechanism by which persons voluntarily create obligations themselves.

3. Contract law is the body of law that governs oral and written agreements associated with exchange … goods and services, money, and properties.

4. It includes topics such …the nature of contractual obligations, limitation of actions, freedom of contract, privacy of contract, termination of contract, and covers also agency relationships, commercial paper, and contracts of employment.

5. The important thing about any contract is to enter … a proper agreement that covers all the possible aspects of the arrangement and that you get it in writing.

6. Legally, contracts relating… the sale of land, disposition of any interest in land (including leases) and charges or mortgages over land, must be in writing and signed by the parties to the contract.

7. The exchange of goods and services is governed …contract law.

8. The law of contract is a set of rules governing the relationship, content and validity of an agreement … two or more persons (individuals, companies or other institution) regarding the sale of goods, provision of services or exchange of interests or ownership.

4. Explain what a contract includes. Use the following words and word combinations: written, pecuniary, duress, mutual, legal capacity, consideration, parties, fraud, oral, signed.

Explain when a contract may be cancelled.

Read this summary of the text. Say if the sentences are true or false.

The main features of a contract include five issues. Contracts may be oral, written or signed. All contracts must be simple. It is not good for a contract to be specialized. A covenant is the usual form of a simple contract. Validity is important for contracts by specialty. Simple contracts may be often express and implied.

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