Promises on Prior Obligations at Common Law
Teeven, Kevin M.![Promises on Prior Obligations at Common Law](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/161/1616321/CHSBZCOP031616321.jpg)
An historical analysis of the development and reform of the law of prior obligations as expressed in preexisting duty rule and past consideration rule. Teeven's principal focus is on the judicial rationalization of common law reforms to partially remove the bar to enforcement of promises grounded in the past. This study traces American deviations from English common law doctrine over the past two centuries in developing theories to overcome tr...