• Do minors have the right to return items that they have purchased and get their money back‚ regardless of a store’s stated/printed return policy? • Why or why not? Be sure to support your answer. • Does it make a difference if the minor makes a purchase by signing a written contract? A minor or other incompetent party who makes a purchase is essentially entering into a contract with the seller and technically and legally speaking does have the right to return the purchased item based on their
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Business Scenarios and Case Problems 9-1. Contracts by Minors…Discuss Kalen’s liability in this situation. Kalen is a seventeen year old boy who rented an apartment for $500 a month‚ after consistently paying for rent for 4 months‚ he decides to return the key and not pay rent for the rest of the remaining months on the contract. I would think that this is classified as “disaffirmance”. Since he is seventeen‚ and a minor when he leaves the apartment‚ he is able to legally avoid his contractual obligation
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disadvantages for minors’ to enter into contract. Most people believe that minors’ are considered incompetent. It is said that if a person does not have the mental capacity to understand a that a contract is being made or the general nature of the contract‚ the person lacks contractual capacity. So then why would someone enter a contract with one. That is why I would have to say the first advantage is that most minors’ which means anyone under the age of 18‚ are allowed to enter into contracts. However
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valid contract is that the parties entering the contract are those who have the competency to contract. This is based on section 10 (1) of the Contract Act 1950 which states: “All agreements are contracted if they are made by the free consent of parties competent to contact‚ for a lawful consideration and with a lawful object‚ and are not hereby expressly declared to be void.” Competency refers to the capacity of being an adult‚ having a sound mind and not forbidden by law to enter any contract (e.g
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valid contract is that the parties entering the contract are those who have the competency to contract. This is based on section 10 (1) of the Contract Act 1950 which states: “All agreements are contracted if they are made by the free consent of parties competent to contact‚ for a lawful consideration and with a lawful object‚ and are not hereby expressly declared to be void.” Competency refers to the capacity of being an adult‚ having a sound mind and not forbidden by law to enter any contract (e.g
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training school. He has one of his brightest students‚ Banda Tasa who has been pursuing a programming course with his school for two years. Banda Tasa being unable to pay the tuition fees charged by the college entered into a contract with Hakainde Hamududu. Terms of this contract were that‚ for the award of a tuition waiver for the course‚ Banda Tasa would work for Hakainde Hamududu for two years after graduation. During the period of instruction‚ Banda Tasa obtained from Nevers Chipimo a laptop computer
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2. Longeta’s reasoning for recording $5.8 million as a current revenue was that this part of the contract was related to the delivery of the software. Since the product was shipped by the September 30th year-end‚ Longeta thought that they were allowed to do this under the revenue recognition principle. The reasoning for the $1.2 million being recorded as deferred revenue was that this amount corresponded to updates and technical support services which had not been performed at the year-end. This
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ADVICE ON CONTRACTS ENTERED INTO BETWEEN MAJORITIES AND MINORS. AUTHOR: KATALILO JOY INTRODUCTION This paper is aimed at discussing contracts entered into between a majority and a minor. The discussion will centre on two scenarios whose facts are given below as follows: FACTS Scenario 1 A proprietor of a computing training school enters into a contract with one of his students. The student is below the age of 18 years at the time the
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1.0 INTRODUCTION All people do not have the same legal capacity to make contract. In some case the legal capacity of the person has no relation to the individual’s actual ability. A person who is 17 years old for example‚ may have just as much to make a contract as an older person. Nevertheless a17 years old are ordinarily under a legal incapacity. In other cases such as those involving insane persons‚ the legal incapacity is based upon the inability to understand the consequences of the particular
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INTRODUCTION Contracts and agreements come into play in almost every aspect of life. The age of majority is different in various parts of the world. In Pakistan the person of 18 years is consideration major. Contract act requires that the contracting parties must be competent to contract. According to majority act. “A minor is a person who has not completed 18 years of age. Where a guardian of minor’s person or property has been appointed under the guardian and wards act or court of wards has
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