Open AccessMisrepresentation, Warranty and Estoppel
Author(s) -
P. S. Atiyah
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
alberta law review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-8356
pISSN - 0002-4821
DOI - 10.29173/alr2165
Subject(s) - estoppel , warranty , misrepresentation , doctrine , representation (politics) , law and economics , epistemology , computer science , law , philosophy , sociology , political science , politics
Few legal concepts are as basic, and as ill-defined, as representation, warranty, and estoppel. Professor Atiyah conducts an examination of the nature of these concepts, as well as their interrelation. The nature of representation, the nature of warranty, and the nature of the distinction between misrepresenta tion and warranty are instructively analyzed in the first part of the article. In the second part, Professor Atiyah investigates the nature and functions of the doctrine of estoppel by representation, and discusses the relations between repre sentation, warranty, and estoppel.