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NIGERIAN LAW OF CONTRACT
I.E. Sagay, LL.B (Ife), LL.M., Ph.D. (Cambridge)
Former Professor and Dean of the Faculties of Law,
Obafemi Awolowo University and the University of Benin, Nigeria.
In the first edition of this book, one of the objectives of the author was that it would enable Nigerian students and legal practitioners to rely substantially on Nigerian case law in contracts, supplemented by cases from the English and other Commonwealth of Nations countries’ courts. The author had in that edition fully woven the Nigerian judicial pronouncements in the law of contract into the fabric of the text. Thus, the basic common law principles of the law of contract were fully discussed, explained and illustrated by references to the rich collection of Nigerian cases and statu1tes.2
In th3e second edition, not only has the above practice been sustained, additionally, numerous Nigerian cases, decided since 1985 when the first edition was published giving further elaboration and clarity to the basic common law principles have been incorporated into the book. What is particularly significant about these new cases is that an overwhelming number of them4 emanate from the Supr5eme Court and Court of Appeal. This edition is therefore even more Nigerian than the first edition, without losing any of its universal common law flavo6ur.
The main objective of this third edition continues to be the development of case law of the Nigerian Law of Contract in order to establish a Law of Contract with a distinct Nigerian flavour within the general Common Law Family.78
For this purpose, Law Students, Law Lecturers and Legal Practitioners need to be brought up to date with9 the latest decisions in the Nigerian Contract cases. This has been effectively achieve10d.
Professor Sagay, S.A.N., is an established author and scholar and has conceived this book primarily as a work for law students, although the copious footnote references will be of great benefit to practitioners.
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