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Douglas Laycock

Review of Yorio, Contract Enforcement

Douglas Laycock
Publisher
Business Lawyer
Date
1990
Citation
Douglas Laycock, Review of Yorio, <em>Contract Enforcement</em> (reviewing Edward I. Yorio, Contract Enforcement: Specific Performance and Injunctions) 455 Business Lawyer 1377–1380 (1990).
UVA Law Faculty Affiliations
Douglas Laycock
Program in Constitutional Law
Center for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
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