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Some key topics covered in Chitty on Contracts include:

What does a 33rd edition, 2,000+ page legal tome have to do with your daily life or a night at the movies? More than you might think. This article unpacks:

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It was glorious. Thousands of pages. Detailed annotations. Comprehensive indexes on offer and acceptance, frustration of contract, and damages. It was the Holy Grail of jurisprudence. He had the authority now. He was saved.

He was reading a passage on the famous case of Hawkins v. McGee (the 'Hairy Hand' case). The text in the PDF was clear, but something was wrong. The standard text should have discussed the 'expectation interest'. Instead, the PDF read: