Contracts Resource Guide
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Introduction
Contract law includes the concepts of: formation, offer, acceptance, and consideration; performance and excuse for nonperformance; breach and damages; third party beneficiaries; assignment of rights and delegation of duties; statute of frauds; contract integration rule; illegal contracts and public policy; unconscionability; and discharge. One major portion of this area of law can be found in the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC).
Legislation & Case Law
- Uniform Commercial Code – Uniform Laws Annotated / West Publishing Co.,1968 - . Master ed, KF 879 .A45 U5 (Westlaw - ULA)
- Ohio Statutes
- Title 13 of the Ohio Revised Code (Commercial Transactions - Ohio's UCC) (LAWriter - from the Ohio state government website).Unannotated. Select the appropriate chapter.
- Baldwin's Ohio Revised Code Annotated / West Pub. Co., 1994 - . Print. KFO 30 1953 .A4 This link will take you to our cataloging record (containing location and call number information) to get you to one of the two print publications of the annotated Ohio Revised Code. Westlaw OH-ST-ANN
- Page's Ohio Revised Code Annotated /Anderson Pub. Co., 1953- KFO30 1953 .P3 This link will take you to our cataloging record (containing location and call number information) to get you to one of the two print publications of the annotated Ohio Revised Code. Lexis Code
- LexisNexis – Ohio Contract Cases Selected general contract law from OH combined cases decided by the Ohio Supreme Court, Ohio Court of Appeals and various Ohio Miscellaneous Courts.
- Federal & State Cases - Selected Contract Law Material for the multistate library of contracts cases.
- Westlaw - OHCML-CS Cases from Ohio state courts that relate to the Uniform Commercial Code and the law of contracts and collections. Coverage begins with 1821. See also Multi State
- Database - MCML-CS Cases from the state courts of all 50 states and the District of Columbia that relate to the Uniform Commercial Code and the law of contracts and collections. Coverage varies by state. See also Topical Materials by Area of Practice > Commercial Law & Contracts > State Cases > Key Number Service topics .
Major Treatises and Practice Guides
- Calamari and Perillo on Contracts, 5th Ed. / Joseph M. Perillo. Thomson/West, 2003. KF 801 .C26 2003
- Contracts, 4th Ed. / E. Allan Farnsworth / Aspen Publishers, 2004. KF 801 .F365 2004 (Lexis - FARCON )
- Corbin on Contracts, rev. ed. / Arthur Linton Corbin / West Pub. Co., 1993 - . KF 801 .C67 1993 (Lexis - CORBIN )
- A Treatise on the Law of Contracts, 4th ed. by Richard A. Lord / Samuel Williston / Thomson/West, 1990 - . KF 801 .W534 (Westlaw – WILLSTN-ALL )
- Restatement of the Law, Second--Contracts 2d / as adopted and promulgated by the American Law Institute at Washington, D.C., May 17, 1979. American Law Institute Publishers, 1981-<1997. KF 801 .A82 1981 - (Westlaw – REST-CONTR ; - Lexis )
- Uniform Commercial Code, 5th ed. / James J. White and Robert S. Summers. / West Group, 2000. KF 890 .W45 2000b Westlaw – WS-UCC (use of this database is not authorized under Law School’s subscription agreement)
- A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting / Kenneth A. Adams / American Bar Association, Section of Business Law, 2004. KF 807 .A33 2004
- Elements of Contract Interpretation / Steven J. Burton / Oxford Univ. Press, 2009. KF 801 .B874 2009
- Ohio Forms; Practice-Oriented Forms for Ohio Legal and Business Transactions / Lawyers Co-operative Pub. Co., 1970 - . KFO 68.O35 - (Westlaw - OH-LF ) This database contains the full text of Ohio Forms Legal and Business, Ohio Forms Legal and Business, a 13-volume set of text and forms most commonly used in Ohio, arranged under topics that conform to traditional Ohio classification of legal subjects.
- Ohio Transaction Guide : Legal Forms / M. Bender, 1975 - . KFO213.A65 O35 - (Lexis - Ohio Transaction Guide ) Provides practitioners with legal background, research tools, practice guides, and forms pertaining to practices involving business, wills and trusts, commercial, real estate, and personal transactions.
Study Aids
- Contracts [sound recording] Law School Legends Series. KF 801.Z9 E681
- Contracts, 2nd ed. [sound recording] Outstanding Professor Series. KF801.Z9 W52 2007
- Contracts in a Nutshell KF801.Z9 R62 2006
- Contracts: Examples & Explanations KF801 .B58 2007
- Understanding Contracts KF801.Z9 F46 2004
- Questions & Answers: Contracts KF 801 .Z9 R69 2006
Journal Articles
See Finding Articles in Law Reviews, Journals and Other Legal Periodicals for an explanation of the legal periodical indexes and databases available to Cleveland-Marshall College of Law students and the CSU community.
- The Journal of Law and Commerce. University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 1981 - . K 10 .O87083 Westlaw - JLCOM
- DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal. DePaul University College of Law and the Commercial Law League of America, 2002- . K 4.E63 Westlaw - DPLBCLJ
- The Procurement Lawyer. Section of Public Contract Law, American Bar Association, 1994- . KF 849.A1 P8
- Public Contract Law Journal / American Bar Association . Section of Public Contract Law, 1967/68 - . K 16 .U17
Databases and Other Web Resources
- CCH Business and Finance - Government Contracts
- Westlaw: Topical Materials by Area of Practice - Commercial Law & Contracts ; All Databases > Topical Materials by Area of Practice > Commercial Law & Contracts : Searchable databases include state and Federal cases relating to civil actions for contract violations; law reviews, texts, bar journals and legal-practice oriented periodicals relating to contract issues; forms, treatises and other practice materials related to contract law; as well as Federal and Uniform Laws (UCC)
- LexisNexis - Area of Law by Topic - Contracts : Searchable databases include federal and state contracts cases, court rules, statutes and legislative materials, administrative materials and regulations, legal reference materials, Model ADR practices and procedures, law reviews and journals, treatises and analytical materials, legal and general news.
- Findlaw: Contracts
- Legal Information Institute: Law About...Contracts Law
- LexisONE Legal Internet Guide: Contracts Law
- Hieros Gamos Commercial Law
- Jurist Law Guides: Contracts
- CORI: Contracting and Organizations Research Institute