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    estoppel. The importance of equitable estoppel was stated in Crabb V. Arun DC (1976) 1 Ch 179 that “equity comes in........ to mitigate the rigours of strict law.......... it prevents a person from insisting on his strict legal rights.... when it would be inequitable for him to do so having regards to the dealings which has taken place between the parties”. An example of promissory estoppel is where A promises B that he would not enforce his legal rights and B acted and relied on it without giving

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    Part 1 A contract is an agreement between two or more parties‚ which can be legally enforceable. A contract maybe written or oral‚ although an oral agreement can be difficult to prove in court. In order for a contract to exist it must include four elements‚ that being offer‚ acceptance‚ intention and consideration. (Sweeney & O’Reilly 2007 pg 160). A contract only exists when an offer has been accepted‚ an offer has the intention to be legally binding and the willingness to contract on certain conditions

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    Dr. RAM MANOHAR LOHIYA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY LUCKNOW. SESSION 2013-2014 A Project on " Immunity of agent- a detailed study" Under the Supervision of Dr Visalakshi Vegesna Assistant Professor Submitted by Umaima Shahnawaz B.A.L.L.B(Hons.) IIIrd Semester Roll no-147 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to my teacher Dr. Visalakshi Vegesna who gave me the golden opportunity to do this wonderful project on the topic " Immunity of agent- a detailed

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    1950. The law applicable are Sec 26 of CA has stated that agreement made without consideration is void. According to Sec 2(d) of CA‚ consideration is an act or abstinence or promise by the promisee or any other person as required by the promisor in return for his promise. Literally‚ it means something that is given in return for something else. On the other hand‚ there was an exceptions under Sec 26 of CA which is an agreement without consideration is void unless the contract made on account

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    Introduction A contract is formed when one of the parties has to accept an offer made by the other. Here‚ David places an advertisement in the local newspaper of a reward‚ £1000 for the safe return of each of his six cats. This shows he is making an offer to all the readers of the Daily Bungle. An offer is defined as follows: “An offer is a statement of the terms upon which the offeror is prepared to be bound if acceptance is communicated while the offer remains alive1.” The critical aspect of

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    Contract Law LA4001 In order to able to outline the contract law on capacity in the light of this statement basically means how does the contract is being issued to the lay people who has no or little knowledge about law and how does it seek to protect the interests of those making the contracts. Contracts are of course not only made between individual people. In many

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    LawTort Law‚ Criminal LawContracts‚ and Civil Procedure Linda Baker Strayer University Professor Sandra Levengood HSA 405 February 29‚ 2013 Introduction The development of health care law goes hand in hand with the development of the health care industry itself. As the industry grew and expanded so did the need for

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    Discharge of contract 5 2.3.1 Discharge by Breach 5 2.3.2 Discharge by Performance 5 2.4 Remedies 6 2.4.1 Unliquidated Remedies 6 2.4.2 Injunction Remedies 6 2.5 Intention to Create Legal Relations 7 2.6 Free Consent 8 3.0 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………...9 4.0 References…………………………………………………………………….10 1.0 Introduction Contract is a customary of procedures guiding the relationship‚ content and validity of an agreement between two or

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    CONTRACT OF LAW Contract can be defined as ‘an agreement enforceable by law’. In other words‚ a contract is an agreement made between two(2) parties or more which is legally binding between the parties. There are six (6) basic elements in the contract : 1. Offer refers to a proposal that is capable of being converted into an agreement by its acceptance. Section 2(a) of Contract Act 1950 provides that when a person signifies another his willingness to do or to abstain from doing anything‚ with

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    Sample Contract Exercise Contracts are the bloodline of business. Thus it is absolutely crucial that you understand what you are or your business is signing. We have looked at some common clauses found in contracts like restraint of trade clauses‚ exclusion clauses and liquidated damages clauses. In addition to these‚ there are many other common clauses and the purpose of this exercise is to highlight these clauses as well. If you do a simple search in the Internet you will realize that many of

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