Section 40 of the Contracts Act 1950‚ when a party to a contract has refused to perform‚ or disable himself from performing‚ his promise in its entirety‚ the promise may could an end to the contract‚ unless he has signified‚ by words or conduct‚ his acquiescence in its continuance. The relevant law of this case is discharge by impossibility of performance. According to Section 57‚ there are two categories of impossibility of performance; first‚ impossibility of performance at the time a contract is made
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more than can be said of his fellows in that line." He died on Friday‚ January 8‚ 1880‚ and 10‚000 to 30‚000 people came to his funeral two days later. Numbers vary. The newspapers of course‚ having in a sense given him his office through their acquiescence of his requests‚ mourned him profusely‚ along apparently with nearly every other one of his “subjects” in San Francisco. Flags were lowered to half-mast and businesses closed. While originally he was buried in the Masonic Cemetery he was later
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An overwhelming majority of world populations identify with a religious group. Why is the actual numerical figure of people believing in God or something supernatural approximately six billion and twenty million people? It is axiomatic that religions make a marked impact on the individuals’ life in several dimensions‚ both positive and negative manners. Taking a look at the medieval history of human beings‚ many people cannot forget the Crusades undertaken by European Christians from 11th to 13th
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Oedipus the King: Fighting Fate “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” (Jean de la Fontaine)‚ a sobering reminder of the extent to which Oedipus and his parents‚ Jocasta and Laius from the play Oedipus the King by Sophocles fight a predetermined course plotted for them by the gods and written by the oracles‚ only for it to transpire tragically. Despite the inevitability of destiny Oedipus‚ Laius and Jocasta defy fate with the entirety of their being‚ for to acknowledge
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Role of Woman In Shakespeare’s Hamlet the women in the play are driving factors for the actions of many other characters. Though they may seem ignorant of all the corruption around them‚ women are still responsible for the corruption throughout the play. Both Gertrude‚ Hamlet’s mother‚ and Ophelia‚ Hamlet’s love‚ affected many of the decisions and actions done by Hamlet and play a passive role in the play’s action‚ but they are extremely important in exposing the play’s themes – in particular Hamlet’s
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Locke on consent and tacit consent Note for Philosophy 166 Locke holds that one becomes obligated to obey political authorities only by one’s free and voluntary consent. Or does he? Locke: “The difficulty is‚ what ought to be looked upon as tacit consent‚ and how far it binds‚ i.e. how far any one shall be looked on to have consented‚ and thereby submitted to any government‚ where he has made no expressions of it at all.” Locke‚ later: “And to this I say that every man‚ that hath any possession
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uplift themselves through vocational training and economical self-reliance. W.E.B Du Bois‚ on the other hand‚ was an advocate of complete racial equality. More recently‚ a similar dilemma occurred among blacks. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. Believed in acquiescence‚ while Malcolm X felt that blacks should attain equal rights ’by any means necessary’‚ or‚ violence. During the Civil Rights movement‚ non-violence was the best way for blacks to attain equal rights because it was important that the white community
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DISC Assignment Hitler’s Willing Executions Did the masses of “ordinary Germans” approve of the mass murder of Jews and act as willing participators in the Holocaust? Participate: to be involved/take part (if somebody doesn’t do anything to stop the action‚ he/she is still a participator) Source/Author | Evidence & Interpretation | A- Daniel Goldhagen B- R. J. Evans C- Christopher Browning D- D. Bankier E- I. Kershaw F- M. Housdon G- Joshua D. Franklin H- William
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in 1984 is more ambiguous than that of Brave New World‚ but still there are similarities‚ such as the ‘Two Minutes Hate’ and the ‘Solidarity Service’‚ which both facilitate feverish‚ animalistic emotions from the participants‚ and solidify their acquiescence to the state’s imposed lifestyle. In Brave New World‚ the conditioning is done openly and for the widely recognized purpose of fitting different members to their different paths in life. The scene in which lower-caste babies are conditioned by
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Just outside the boundaries of the Roman empire of the first and second centuries‚ beyond the Rhine River‚ and occupying the area of Central Europe of what is today Germany‚ lived the tribes of the Germanic people. In Germania‚ the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus gave an account of the lifestyles and organization of these peculiar barbarians. These descendants of modern Germans proved peculiar in that they adopted many qualities typical of barbaric cultures‚ yet they simultaneously practiced
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