“A common mistake‚ even on a most fundamental matter‚ does not make a contract void at law; but it makes it voidable in equity.” To what extent does this statement represent the law after Great Peace Shipping Ltd. V Tsavliris‚ The Great Peace (2002)? A mistake is an erroneous belief held by one or more contracting parties at the time of entering the contract‚ as to whether certain details pertaining to the contract were true. Mistakes can be classified in three categories; common‚ mutual‚ or
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ADVICE ON CONTRACTS ENTERED INTO BETWEEN MAJORITIES AND MINORS. AUTHOR: KATALILO JOY INTRODUCTION This paper is aimed at discussing contracts entered into between a majority and a minor. The discussion will centre on two scenarios whose facts are given below as follows: FACTS Scenario 1 A proprietor of a computing training school enters into a contract with one of his students. The student is below the age of 18 years at the time the
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The Development of Common Law and Equity Common Law has been functioning in England since the 1250’s‚ two centuries after William the Conqueror defeated Earl Harold Godwinson in the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and became King. It was then in 1066 that Law began to be standardised. There were‚ however‚ problems with the Common Law system and people were becoming dissatisfied with the remedies distributed by the Court. As a result‚ the Court of Chancery was established and could provide whatever
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Forms of breach of contract and the remedies that can be used. Table of contents: Introduction Contracts as a whole Forms of breach of contracts Remedies Introduction: As long as human kind can remember contracts has been in the existence. Goods were exchanged in order to survive. Therefore a contract can be described as an agreement between two (or more) people where one person offers to do something and another person accepts that offer. So when someone agrees to sell and
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offeror’s actual meaning was otherwise. * Definition: indication by one person to another of his or her willingness to enter into a contract with that person on certain terms. The ‘offer’ must indicate a willingness by the offeror to be bound without further negotiation as to the terms of the proposed contract. * Offer creates in the offeree a power to create a contract by their unilateral action. * Whether a statement is an offer depends on whether the person to whom it is addressed would reasonably
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Research Paper Title 2008/9 ‘Termination of the contract as a remedy for breach of contract by the seller: a comparison between English law and the CISG.’ A Research Paper submitted to the University of Manchester for the Degree of LL.M Masters (International Business Law) in the Faculty of Humanities. School of Law ID#744178 April 2008/9 Declaration i. No portion of the work referred to in the research has been submitted
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CHAPTER 2: Nature and Effects of Obligations Art. 1163. Every person obliged to give something is also obliged to take care of it with the proper diligence of a good father of a family‚ unless the law or the stipulation of the parties requires another standard of care. (1094a) 3 kinds of prestations in obligations: • To give real (there is some physical thing which may be the subject of possession‚ the delivery of which completely discharges the obligation) • To do • Not to do
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Group A8 group memebers: Question 1 HowCan Pte Ltd enters into a contract of sale with Panda Ltd in China for the sale of perishable goods‚ F.O.B (free on board: i.e. buyer has to make the shipping and other arrangements). Howcan Pte Ltd then gets SureCan Pte Ltd to transport perishable goods from China to Singapore. The ship is supposed to transit via Vietnam. The goods are shipped out of China‚ but due to improper planning on the part of SureCan Pte Ltd‚ they are wrongly dispatched
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Equity has brought benefits to many litigants who would otherwise have been severely disadvantaged by the common law. Discuss‚ with reference to decided cases. William the Conqueror found England with no single system of law common to the whole country. The law was mainly sets of customary rules which differed from area to area. For example‚ in one area you could get away with stealing‚ in another it would be seen as crime. There was no such thing as ‘ The English Legal System” until William’s
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an action against Dan‚ what are the legal issues involved in this action and how should each be resolved? Discuss. Issue: Is Dan liable to Pat for breach of contract. Rule: Here the agreement between Pat and Dan falls outside of Common Law and within the boundaries of the Statue of Frauds. The most relevant of the types of contracts which fall within the Statue of Frauds‚ is an agreement for the sale of land and for an interest in land‚ or an agreement by a purchaser of real property to pay
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