Case Notes Question 1 Taylor v Provan (1864) 2 M 1226 Provan went to Taylor’s farm and offered to buy 31 cattle at £14 per head‚ but Taylor refused to accept less than £15. After trying unsuccessfully to purchase cattle elsewhere‚ Provan returned to Taylor’s farm the worse for drink and offered £15 per head‚ which was accepted by Taylor. Taylor later brought an action against Provan for the price of the cattle‚ and Provan claimed that he had been incapable‚ through intoxication‚ of entering
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DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS LAW (BA333) ASSIGNMENT TERM ONE 2006 Instruction: • Answer ALL questions. • Marks will be awarded for good presentation and thoroughness in your approach. • NO marks will be awarded for the entire assignment if any part of it is found to be copied directly from printed materials or from another student. • Complete this cover sheet and attach it to your assignment. Student declaration: I declare that: I understand what
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DEVELOPING CONTRACTS IN PURCHASING & SUPPLY Welcome to the ‘bonus’ features of your Profex Study Pack! This material is intended to support‚ extend and focus your study and revision for your Developing Contracts exam. While you’re on-line‚ browse through the content and use any links that look interesting. We’ll flag updated material for you in blue text‚ so that you can quickly see where there’s something new. You may want to save this as a Favourite in your Web browser‚ and opt to have access
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Contracts Summary DAMAGES – REMEDIES FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT THE INTERESTS PROTECTED Fuller and Perdue‚ “The Reliance Interest in Contract Damages” There are three principle purposes in awarding contract damages: restitution interest – object is the prevention of unjust enrichment by the defaulting promisor at the expense of the promisee reliance interest – object is to put the plaintiff in a good position as he was before the promise was made expectation interest – object is to put the
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Business Law–LEGT1710 The Role of Law In Business The Law is a systematic set of rules to control conduct within a society‚ created by parliament and is enforced by courts. Sources of Law Law is made up of two parts: 1. Enacted (Statute) Law: law that is made by parliament. It can be changed by parliament but is interpreted by judges. In the case of a conflict between statue and common law‚ statue law prevails under the Doctrine of Parliamentary Supremacy as it has the ultimate law making
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Module 2 Introduction Negligence is one of many types of torts. A tort is a civil wrong that is outside of contract law and arises out of recognition that a person is responsible for their acts and omissions when dealing with others. The term ’tort’ refers to a number of different laws such as: • nuisance‚ • trespass and • assault Torts generally compensate the individual for personal loss or attacks on reputation‚ where the loss was caused by another person.
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Contracts – MacDougall 2010-2011 Sara Li FORMATION Offer & Acceptance Offer & Invitation to Treat Mere puffs Invitation to Treat Offer Mere puff: no reasonable person would take it as an offer Can the terms of the K (ie offer) only come from one party? * Battle of the forms - last shot/first blow? (Denning in Butler Machine Tool v Ex-Cell-O Corp) * Strict offer & acceptance is reaffirmed in Gibson v Manchester City Council [1979] - only extreme cases might not
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The Contract Law Bible Hey Guys. I worked really hard on this on the run up to the June exam last year. I found it really useful and so did the people in my class. Please feel free to pass this on to your friends who are studying contract law‚ but please don’t pass it off as your own‚ or make any money from the reproduction of this. Thanks =) Lucy Rimington © Offer and Acceptance Offer - A proposal to enter into an agreement with another person. An offer must express the intent of the person
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AB1301 Business Law 2012/13 Semester 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 3: OFFER AND ACCEPTANCE ........................................................................................... 1 3.1 Offer ........................................................................................................................................... 2 3.2 Acceptance ................................................................................................................................ 3 3.1 Electronic
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Contract Law Notes Contracts ‘A’ Offer Bilateral contracts Unilateral contracts Offers to the public at large What is an offer? Mere puff Supply of information Invitation to treat Categorizing transactions Advertisements a) Advertisements in a catalogue or a curricular b) Advertisements in newspapers or magazines c) Advertisements appearing on the internet d) Display of goods Auctions a) Advertisement of auction b) Auctions with reserves c) Auctions without a reserve Tendering
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