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'JC Smith's The Law of Contract' provides a superb overview of all the key areas of contract law making this book ideal for use on all undergraduate courses. A focus on key cases acts a springboard into analysis and critical discussion enabling students to really understand the fundamentals of the subject.
Going beyond the author's previous text, this up-to-date book presents the latest LRFD specifications, which are mandatory in the design and use of steel structures. Included is a concise introduction to fillet-welded and beaming-type bolted connections for tension members. Accurate page numbers are provided for each cited LRFD specification, design and recommended design procedure. This timely title offers new material not found in the previous work, including bracing requirements, connections, plate girders, composite members and plastic analysis and design. Appendices contain the results of an elastic factored load analysis of an industrial type building for the applicable LRFD loading combinations and a concise review of material pertaining to principal axes for column and beam action.
Carol Smith has carefully documented Captain Smith's unique career, managing to capture the technical aspects of naval aviation, while telling a bigger story. A must-read for naval historians.
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The Law of Contract expounds the fundamental principles of the law clearly, concisely and, where appropriate, critically. It provides an introduction for the beginner and a means of revision towards the end of a course. By the author of Smith & Thomas: A Casebook on Contract, it is comprehensively cross-referenced to the 11th edition (2000) of that work. This edition has been fully updated and includes an account of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 and important recent case law, particularly in the fields of implied terms and damages.
Your chance to relive a little piece of "The Good Old Days" and find the answers to these burning questions: Which future Coast Guard Captain said "Shit, Mal, let's do a 360 and get out of here." Which Coast Guard astronaut said, when asked to describe his scariest moment, "Flying as Malcolm Smith's co-pilot." Which Coast Guard aviator got the blame for putting training wheels and streamers on the commanding officer's and XO's new bicycles. Which Coast Guard aviator threw up in his glove while flying rather than make a mess in the cockpit. This book brings back some of the funniest moments of the Coast Guard during the time period between the "Old Guard" and the new modern Coast Guard. "For ...
In the early hours of June 25, 1979, a gruesome scene unfolded. The body of Susan Reinert, a suburban Philadelphia high school teacher, was found jammed into the hatchback of a car. She was in the fetal position. She was naked. Her two young children were missing. Thus began one of the most prominent murder cases in Pennsylvania's history. The Main Line murders, as they came to be known, would grip the nation and become the target of a seven-year investigation by the FBI and the Pennsylvania State PoliceDthe most massive homicide investigation in American history. The main suspect in the brutal murder turned out to be Jay Smith, the Principal of Upper Merion High School, where Reinert taught...
Clear and case-driven with incisive analysis; this is a seminal text fully modernized by a prize-winning author and scholar. Building on the classic work by Professor Sir JC Smith, Paul S Davies has fully updated this text for today's students, retaining the clarity, authority, and rigour for which the original was celebrated. This book offers an accessible, straightforward introduction to the basic principles of contract law; the chapters are concise, but detailed, and ideal for those studying this topic on an undergraduate course. Crucial issues surrounding cases are explored, along with the debates about the extent and reach of the law to offer a considered view of the doctrines as they stand. JC Smith's The Law of Contract provides you with: Full and integrated coverage of the latest developments including the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and the judgments on penalty clauses; Student-friendly features including: key points, end-of-chapter questions, further reading guidance, and a legal glossary. Book jacket.
No reader of this book will be more surprised than was the public by the truly bizarre beliefs and benthic depths of the evil (the Supreme Court's repeated word, evil) encountered in this longest murder investigation in Pennsylvania's history thirteen years. Over fifty state troopers, eighteen FBI agents, and numerous local police departments were involved as this longest investigation began when the naked body of Susan Reinert was found, obviously sexually abused, a "strap-on" sexual device lying near her corpse. Her body was found stuffed in the tire well of her Plymouth Horizon and left with the liftgate open. A midthirties female, just five feet tall, round hips that resembled a "glisten...