Estoppel

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Richard Owen, LLB, LLM, Solicitor Principal Lecturer, Associate Head (Academic Affairs) University of Glamorgan Law School

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Owen, Richard Essential tort law – 3rd ed 1 Torts – England 2 Torts – Wales I Title 346.4'2'03 ISBN 1 85941 592 X Printed and bound in Great Britain

Foreword

This book is part of the Cavendish Essential series. The books in the series are designed to provide useful revision aids for the hard-pressed student. They are not, of course, intended to be substitutes for more detailed treatises. Other textbooks in the Cavendish portfolio must supply these gaps. Each book in the series follows a uniform format of a checklist of the areas covered in each chapter, followed by expanded treatment of ‘Essential’ issues looking...