LAW OF CONTRACT NOTES INTRODUCTION. A contract is an agreement between two parties which is enforceable by law.An agreement is made when a person signifies his willingness to do or to abstain from doing anything with a view of obtaining the assent of the other party. Such act or abstinence is said to make a proposal.The person making the proposal is called the offeror and the person accepting the proposal is called the offeree TYPES OF CONTRACTS: Contracts may be classified into: -Written
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international contract is a contract that has a foreign element‚ that is to say that the contract is in contact with one or more order (s) legal (s) abroad (s). Specifically‚ the foreign element may be resident abroad‚ a party to the contract‚ nationality‚ place of contract conclusion‚ and many other possibilities. The commercial contract is a contract for a commercial transaction or a contract made by a trader for the purposes of his trade. Therefore an international commercial contract is the addition
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is address the issue of turnaround time in contract negotiations. We will present recommendations on how to streamline the contract negotiation process by implementing a change in the current process and creating a standard contract. Background Liferay‚ Inc. is a software and service oriented company who has an open-sourced product. It was founded in 2004 in response to growing demand for Liferay Portal‚ the market’s leading independent portal product that was garnering
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Nationalisation of Banks Despite the provisions‚ control and regulations of Reserve Bank of India‚ banks in India except the State Bank of India or SBI‚ continued to be owned and operated by private persons. By the 1960s‚ the Indian banking industry had become an important tool to facilitate the development of the Indian economy. At the same time‚ it had emerged as a large employer‚ and a debate had ensued about the nationalization of the banking industry. Indira Gandhi‚ then Prime Minister of India
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it possible for one standard form of construction contract to meet the need of every project? Discuss by reference to at least two forms in common use in industry. | 2 | 1.0 | What is a Construction Contract? | 2 | 1.1 | Why use a standard form of contract? | 3 | 2.0 | Different forms of contract | 3 | | 2.1 PWD (Public Works Department) FORM OF AGREEMENT | 4 | | 2.2 FIDIC | 4 | 3.0 | Main differences between both forms of contract | 6 | | 3.1 Payments | 7 | | 3.2 Variation
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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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CONTRACTS OF INDEMNITY Definition Section 124 of the Contract Act defines a contract of indemnity as a contract by which one party promises to save the other party from loss caused to him by the conduct of the promisor himself‚ or by the conduct of any other person. P. contracts to indemnify Q against the consequences of any proceeding which R may. take against Q in respect of a certain sum of Rs. 200. This is a Contract of Indemnity: P is called the indemnifier and Q the Indemnity-holder. Characteristics
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unknowingly enter into series of contracts. This may be in the form of purchasing an article from a shop or by purchasing a railway ticket or by numerous ways. In modern societies‚ because of increasing complexity‚ there has been a practice of concluding contracts in standard form. One such instance of a standard form of contract is contract of insurance. Thus‚ standard form of contracts are those kinds of contracts were parties do not sit together to bargain the terms of the contract. One problem that is likely
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common law‚ a contract is a legally binding agreement between two or more parties that sets an exchange of promises of what each party will or will not do".(Elliott‚2011‚p.13) The contract can be unilateral and bilateral. if the oferee can accept simply by promising to perform‚ the contract is bilateral. Bilateral contract is a "promise for a promise"‚ and in order to be formed‚ is not need for consideration to be made at the time when the promises are exchanged . In a unilateral contract‚one party
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Terms The content of a contract are made up of terms (or ‘clauses’ as they are called in the case of written contracts) which may be express or implied. The express terms are the terms which the parties actually stipulated for themselves when making the contract‚ whether orally or in writing. In addition to the express terms‚ the courts sometimes‚ for a variety of reasons‚ imply certain terms into the contract. Implied terms are terms that are not expressly stated in the contract but are deemed to be
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