Preface
PART I: Parties—The Complexities of Who Are and Who Should Be Parties to the Agreement for the Sale of Land
CHAPTER 1: Two Cheers for Certainty: The Rights and Liabilities of Undisclosed Parties - Benjamin Zarnett, Goodmans LLP
CHAPTER 2: Conventional and Unconventional Parties: How Documents are Engrossed and Executed - Brian Bucknall, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
CHAPTER 3: Assignments of Contracts, Novation and Privity - Craig R. Carter, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
PART II: Caveat Emptor—The Complexities of the Life and the Death of Buyer Beware
CHAPTER 4: Caveat Emptor: The Position at Common Law - John D. McCamus, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
CHAPTER 5: Drafting Purchase Agreements to Qualify or Extend Caveat Emptor - Bradley N. McLellan, WeirFoulds LLP
CHAPTER 6: The Death of Caveat Emptor: Mandatory Warranties and Disclosure in New Home Transactions - Harry Herskowitz, of DelZotto, Zorzi with assistance from Richard Wong
PART III: The Complexities of the Quality, Quantity, and Utility of Land
CHAPTER 7: Deconstructing Construction Liens - Duncan W. Glaholt, of Glaholt & Associates, and Markus Rotterdam
CHAPTER 8: A Municipal and Planning Law Primer - Mary L. Flynn-Guglietti, McMillan Binch
CHAPTER 9: Restrictive Covenants: The Basic Ingredients - Bruce H. Ziff, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta
CHAPTER 10: Defining the Parcel: The Complexity Continues - Izaak de Rijcke, Barrister & Solicitor
CHAPTER 11: Priorities and Competing Claims to Land - Paul M. Perell, WeirFoulds LLP
CHAPTER 12: Title and Title Opinions - Delee A. Fromm, McCarthy Tétrault LLP
CHAPTER 13: The Real Estate Lawyer's Duties: Defining the Duty with Reference to Elements of Proximity and Reliance - Andrew A. Sanfilippo, O Donnell, Robertson & Sanfilippo
PART IV: The Complexities of Fixing the Real Estate Transaction That Has Gone Awry
CHAPTER 14: So You're Not Closing! - Reuben M. Rosenblatt, Q.C., Minden, Gross, Grafstein & Greenstein LLP
CHAPTER 15: Fraud in Real Estate Transactions: The Effects and the Remedies - Sidney H. Troister, Torkin Manes Cohen Arbus LLP
CHAPTER 16: Saving the Deal with Title Insurance - Kathleen A. Waters, TitlePLUSAE, Lawyers' Professional Indemnity Company
PART V: The Complexities of Good Faith
CHAPTER 17: Good Faith in Contract Law - Arnie Herschorn, Minden, Gross, Grafstein & Greenstein LLP
CHAPTER 18: Good Faith and Contracts: Principles, Doctrines, and Other Considerations - Maurizio Romanin, Barrister & Solicitor
Part VI: The Complexities of Remedies for Real Estate Transactions
CHAPTER 19: When Can a Purchaser Refuse to Close? Making Sense of Conflicting Trends in the Law of Fundamental Breach, Conditions, and Misrepresentation - Valerie A. Edwards, of Torkin Manes Cohen Arbus LLP, and Janice Grevler
CHAPTER 20: Anticipatory Breaches and What to Do About Them - Silvana M. D'Alimonte, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
CHAPTER 21: Damages in Failed Real Estate Transactions - Roderic G. Ferguson, Q.C., of Ferguson Barristers, and Joyce M. Chun
CHAPTER 22: Blackacre Had No Readily Available Equivalent: Specific Performance and Equitable Damages After Semelhago v. Paramadevan - Jeffrey W. Lem, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
Table of Cases
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