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 amount to acceptance". Later the case has been rethought‚ because it appeared that
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Case Brief & IRAC Carrie "Shellie" Cobbs University of Phoenix LAW 531 Judge Stephen R. Ruddick April 28‚ 2015 Case Brief & IRAC Case Brief: Natasha Hallet was a veteran performer for Cirque du Soleil and performed numerous times without injury until one mistake that took place during a show in Orlando‚ FL changed all of that. While performing an aerial stunt‚ Ms. Hallet said that she forgot to rig her harness properly and that her partner missed her mistake during a routine safety check. Since
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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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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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consideration. Promissory estoppel like proprietary estoppel is popular types of equitable 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
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In Malaysia‚ 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
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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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Introduction Unlike other civil law legal systems‚ such as the German one and the American one‚ United Kingdom’s (UK) and Hong Kong’s (HK) do not recognize the approach of general principle of good faith in contract law‚ as illustrated in Walford v Miles1. Yet‚ good faith should be promoted in UK and HK because one should value fairness in the whole course of dealing‚ from the point of pre-contractual negotiations till the discharge of he contracts. This essay aims at showing the merits of a good
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years of inventory data is collected from each organization. Members of Team B collaborate to compare the inventory systems. Inventory Four inventory systems are compared over different organizations. An inventory system as part of practice management software for veterinarians‚ Wal-Mart’s inventory system‚ and winter and summer seasonal inventory for University of Phoenix with descriptions are provided and four years of historical data compared. AVImark Inventory Control AVImark software
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BUSINESS LAW ASSIGNMENT ------------------------------------------------- “To create a binding agreement the acceptance must occur‚ and that ‘acceptance’ must be final and absolutely unconditional. This is clear under Australian contract law.” ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Discuss the accuracy of this statement. In order to discuss the accuracy of this statement we must first understand the concept of ‘acceptance’.
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