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78 Nw. U. L. Rev. 340 (1983-1984)
Values in Contract: Internal and External

handle is hein.journals/illlr78 and id is 348 raw text is: Copyright 1983 by Northwestern University School of Law     Printed in U.S.A.
Northwestern University Law Review                            Vol 78, No. 2
VALUES IN CONTRACT: INTERNAL AND
EXTERNAL
Ian . Macneil*
I.  INTRODUCTION   ............................................  341
II. THE CONTRACT DIMENSION .............................. 343
III. VALUES IN CONTEXT: CONTRACT BEHAVIOR AND ITS
INTERNAL PRINCIPLES AND RULES ........................ 346
A. Common Contract Norms ............................. 347
B. Common Contract Norms and the Discrete Norm.-
Enhancing Discreteness and Presentiation ............. 349
C. Common Contract Norms and the Relational Norms .. 350
D.   Commentary  ..........................................  351
1. Common Contract Norms ......................... 351
2. The Discrete Norm ................................ 355
a. Values of the Discrete Norm .................. 355
b. Relationship Between Values of the Discrete
Norm and Values of the Other Common
Contract Norms ............................... 360
3. The Relational Norms ............................. 361
a. Values of the Relational Norms ............... 362
b. Relationship Between Values of the Relational
Norms and Values of the Other Common
Contract Norm  s ...............................  363
c. Are the Values of the Relational Norms
Contrary to the Values of the Discrete Norm?. 364
IV. VALUES IN CONTEXT: EXTERNAL SOCIAL RESPONSES ..... 367
A.  Introduction  ..........................................  367
1. Internal-External, Sovereign-Nonsovereign ......... 367
2. Prohibition, Nonintervention, and Total Control.. 368
B. External Social Responses. Values in Sovereign Positive
L aw  ..................................................  369
* This Article is a revision of a paper prepared for the Conference on Philosophical Jurispru-
dence of Contract Law at the Westminster Institute for Ethics and Human Values, Westminster
College, London, Canada, November 20-21, 1981 and May 15, 1982.
I am greatly indebted to Nancy C. Macneil for her extensive editorial help. Roderick W.
Macneil made a number of penetrating and helpful suggestions, as did Michael Timmers. The
interchanges with my colleagues in a seminar at Northwestern University School of Law and at
the Westminster Conference were also very helpful.

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