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Simplified Guide to Construction Law has easy-to-read, paragraphed-sized samples of how the courts have viewed common areas of disagreement and litigation in the building industry.
You’ll read about legal problems that real builders have faced, and how the court ruled. Simplified Guide to Construction Law will tell you what you need to know about contracts, torts, fraud, misrepresentation, warranty and strict liability, construction defects, indemnity, insurance, mechanics liens, bonds and bonding, statutes of limitation, arbitration, and more.
These are simplified examples that illustrate not necessarily who is right and who is wrong, but who the law has sided with.
Abbreviated Table of Contents:
- Chapter One: Law
- Chapter Two: Formation and Interpretation of Contracts
- Chapter Three: Changes and Extras
- Chapter Four: Breach of Contract
- Chapter Five: Torts
- Chapter Six: Fraud and Misrepresentation
- Chapter Seven: Warranty and Strict Liability
- Chapter Eight: Construction Defects
- Chapter Nine: Indemnity
- Chapter Ten: Insurance
- Chapter Eleven: Mechanics Liens
- Chapter Twelve: Bonds and Bonding
- Chapter Thirteen: Statutes of Limitations
- Chapter Fourteen: Arbitration
- Chapter Fifteen: Affirmative Action and Prevailing Wages
- Legal Terms, 195
- Construction Terms, 209
- Index, 283
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