Elements of the law of contract Catharine MacMillan Richard Stone 2009 LLB 2650040 Diploma in Law 2690040 page 2 This subject guide was prepared for the University of London External System by: University of London External System Catharine MacMillan BA (Victoria) ‚ LLB (Queen’s‚ Canada)‚ LLM (Cantab)‚ Lecturer in Law‚ School of Law‚ Queen Mary‚ University of London and Richard Stone LLB (Soton)‚ LLM (Hull)‚ Barrister‚ Professor and Head of Law‚ Lincoln Law School‚ University of
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Contracts Contracts are an important part of everyday life. They are an essential part of business. As a student of a business law class‚ I will discuss in this paper several aspects of contracts. This paper will give a definition of a contract and the essential elements necessary to form a valid contract. It will briefly discuss breach of contract and the difference between a material breach and a nonmaterial breach of contract. Examples of legal and equitable remedies available for breach
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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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In the Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare‚ Lady Macbeth exhibit a greater capacity for evil than her husband Macbeth. Shortly after reading the letter sent to her from Macbeth‚ Lady Macbeth says‚ “Glamis thou art‚ and Cawdor‚ and shalt be/What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature./It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness” (1‚ V‚ 14-16). Lady Macbeth knows that Macbeth isn’t as ruthless as herself and he doesn’t have the drive to do evil‚ so Lady Macbeth is going to persuade Macbeth
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Maritime Sales Contracts Contracts between vessel owners and charterers concerning the water transportation of goods are technically known in admiralty law as "contracts of affreightment". The charterer agrees to pay a freight charge for cargo space. The voyage‚ amount of cargo space‚ and time of delivery will all be covered by the contract. One common type of contract is the “voyage” charter. This type of charter usually concerns the hire of a vessel‘s entire cargo space for one or more specific
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a) The first contract should be between the Ramirez family and Majestic Developers‚ inc‚ as they are the parties involved. (b) The consideration on the Ramirez family side is their 250-acre farm and on Majestic Developers‚ inc the consideration is three million million dollars. (c) What should be included in the contract should be; the parties‚ (2) the price‚ (3) the subject matter of the contract‚ and (4) the time of performance of the contract‚ also the contract should address the small fence
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Assignment 5.2: Course Project — Action Plan for Personal Capacity— Building Jones International University March 15‚ 2014 Readiness is an important tool for a company in terms of having a firm action plan for adaptiveness‚ resilience and environmental scanning. All this is made possible by possessing strong leadership skills. In the Environmental scanning process the company is able to collect data about itself‚ the external world and its competitors. Through this the company gets
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The common law view of pre-registration contracts was that the company did not exist for legal purposes until it had been formally incorporated (registered). This common law view resulted in company’s being unable to enter a binding contract until they had been registered. However "given the delays which can be encountered in the registration process‚ the promoter of a company may wish to enter into contracts `for’ the company prior to its incorporation" . An example of this may be a promoter
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get a group contract agreed with a group of young people going on a weekend residential‚ and explain the importance of having such a contract in place. During this assignment I will talk about the steps I would take to get a group of young people on a residential weekend to sign an agreed working agreement contract‚ and highlight the importance and benefits of having the contract in place. In my assignment I am going to mention the advantages and disadvantages of having a contract and what should
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LAW OF CONTRACT Thursday 9:00 Summer Term‚ 2014 Lecturer and Module Co-ordinator: John Halladay Texts: Poole‚ Textbook on Contract Law McKendrick‚ Contract Law Casebook: Both Poole and McKendrick have casebooks which are very good. There are also many others on the market. Statute book: There are not many statutes in the course but there are some and this will be useful for the exam. Any Contract or Commercial Law statute book should do. A. WHY CONTRACT? A
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