INTRODUCTION The law of contract is the collection of legal rules which govern contracts. These rules‚ in turn‚ are part of the law of obligations‚ a subdivision of the law of property which is traditionally regarded as part of private law. Private law governs the persons (legal subject) in their personal or private capacity before the law in relation to other legal subjects. In other word‚ private law can be defined as balance and protect legitimate individual interests. Traditionally private law‚ being
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4. NOTES 4.1. THE ESSENTIALS OF A VALID CONTRACT A. ESSENTIAL No 1 The Parties Must Act Within Their Contractual Capacity What is contractual capacity? We view it in relation to the concepts of personality and legal status: PERSONALITY – determines that you are a legal entity or persona. As a result of this personality you acquire legal status ie your legal status defines that legal personality further. STATUS then describes your legal “condition” eg a married woman‚ A public
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Different approach taken by the Court of Appeal in Williams v Roffey was it fair or not? It is commonly accepted within the English Contract Law that the models of contractual fairness must exist in contractual disputes. Essential to these models is the doctrine of consideration and the principles that comes under the doctrine of consideration such as laws derived from both Williams v Roffey (1990) and Stilk v Myrick (1809). Starting with the development of the doctrine of consideration and
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THE LAW OF CONTRACT IN GHANA (These notes have mainly been culled from Mrs. Christine Dowuona Hammond’s seminal work on the Law of Contracts.) INTRODUCTION Contracts are made by people every day‚ whether the parties recognise it or not. Each time one spends money on anything – a bus ticket‚ an airline ticket‚ a pair of shoes‚ a meal in a restaurant‚ laundry services‚ books‚ or signs a lease‚ etc. one concludes a valid and legally binding contract. Contracts may be oral or written;
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Contract A contract is a promise between two or more persons involving the exchange of some good or service. Some of the basic elements of a contract include: an offer and an acceptance; "capacity‚" or being of legal age and sound competence; "mutual assent‚" or agreement on the terms of a contract; and "consideration‚" or compensation for goods or services rendered. The element that distinguishes a contract from an informal agreements is that it is legally binding:the law provides
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Felthouse v Bindley From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Felthouse v Bindley Court Court of Common Pleas Citation(s) (1862) 11 Cb (NS) 869; [1862] EWHC CP J35; 142 ER 1037 Transcript(s) Full text of judgment Judge(s) sitting Willes J‚ Byles J and Keating J Felthouse v Bindley (1862) EWHC CP J 35‚ is the leading English contract law case on the rule that one cannot impose an obligation on another to reject one ’s offer. This is sometimes misleadingly expressed as a rule that "silence cannot
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our contract law is basically governed and enforced by the Contract Act 1950. The remedy of specific performance presupposes the existence of a valid contract between the parties to the controversy. The terms of the contract must be definite and certain. This is significant because equity cannot be expected to enforce either an invalid contract or one that is so vague in its terms that equity cannot determine exactly what it must order each party to perform. It would be unjust for a court to compel
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A contract intends to formalize an agreement of two or more parties‚ in relation to a particular subject. Contracts can cover an extremely broad range of matters including the sale of goods or real property‚ the terms of employment or of an independent contractor relationship‚ the settlement of a dispute and ownership of intellectual property developed as part of work for hire. Essential Elements of a Contract * Clear certain and communicated agreement. Meaning that the parties are consensus
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CONTRACT AND RELATED OBLIGATION Prof. Hillman I) Theories of Obligation A) CONTRACT: Agreement with Consideration – Bargain Theory of Consideration Definition: A promise that is supported by consideration because the promisor gets something (extracts) from the promissee in exchange for the promise. Ex: I tell Alice I will sell her my piano for 400 dollars and she agrees. I promised my piano in exchange for something (400 dollars) therefore my promise is enforceable. 1) Bargained
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Briefly describe the specifics of patent ‘056 described in Exhibit 1 and the various court decisions around the State Street Bank & Trust Co. vs. Signature Financial Group Inc. The Issue of this case was to determine whether or not Signature ’s claimed invention the “056 Patent”‚ a data processing system‚ is drawn to statutory subject topic under 35 U.S.C 101. The Court ruling holds that the ’056 Patent is directed to non-statutory subject matter under 35 U.S.C 101 and is
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