knowing the truth‚ Oedipus exclaims to his people of how he will do his best for the people and bring the murderer of the previous king to justice. With this being said‚ Oedipus’s act of self-binding‚ at the end‚ is an authentic act of self-definition because of his motivation to help the people through his self-binding‚
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4. NOTES 4.1. THE ESSENTIALS OF A VALID CONTRACT A. ESSENTIAL No 1 The Parties Must Act Within Their Contractual Capacity What is contractual capacity? We view it in relation to the concepts of personality and legal status: PERSONALITY – determines that you are a legal entity or persona. As a result of this personality you acquire legal status ie your legal status defines that legal personality further. STATUS then describes your legal “condition” eg a married woman‚ A public
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History of Contract in India The Third Law commission of British India formed in 1861 under the stewardship of Chairman Sir John Romilly‚ with initial members as Sir Edward Ryan‚ R. Lowe‚ J.M. Macleod‚ Sir W. Erle (succeeded by Sir. W.M. James) and Justice Wills (succeeded by J. Henderson)‚ had presented the report on contract law for India as Draft Contract Law (1866). The Draft Law was enacted as The Act 9 of 1872 on 25th April 1872 and the Indian Contract Act‚ 1872 came into force with effect
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GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF CONTRACT INTRODUCTION Definition S.2(h) Contract Act 1950 : An agreement enforceable by law. Legally binding between parties. 2 INTRODUCTION (continue..) (a) (b) Legislation governing contracts: Contracts Act 1950 English Law - By virtue of S.5 of the Civil Law Act (When there are no provisions in the Contract Act) 3 INTRODUCTION (continue..) 4 OFFER / PROPOSAL Definition S. 2(a) Contracts Act “When one person signifies
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Many employers now require that employees‚ as a condition of being hired‚ sign employment contracts that contain non-compete or non-solicitation provisions. A non-compete provision prohibits the employee from starting a business in competition with their current employer (or perhaps also prohibiting the employee from going to work for a close competitor). A non-solicitation provision prohibits the employee from contacting the customers of the employer in hopes of taking their business away from the
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By the case of Hughes v Metropolitan Railway Co the doctrine of Promissory Estoppel was establish and the derivation of modern doctrine of it is to be found in the The doctrine of Promissory Estoppel was first developed but was lost for some time until it was resurrected by Lord Denning in the leading case of Central London Property Trust Ltd v High Trees House Ltd. Promissory estoppel There are three exceptions to the rule in Pinnel’s case. They are composite agreement‚ payment of debt
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In Malaysia‚ our contract law is basically governed and enforced by the Contract Act 1950. The remedy of specific performance presupposes the existence of a valid contract between the parties to the controversy. The terms of the contract must be definite and certain. This is significant because equity cannot be expected to enforce either an invalid contract or one that is so vague in its terms that equity cannot determine exactly what it must order each party to perform. It would be unjust for a
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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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CONTRACTS IN BUSINESS On the 10th of September an offer was distinguished between Huddersford Electronics Ltd (HE ltd) and Gem Computer Stores (GCS). The offer was an invitation to treat as there is an entitlement that an offer could accepted and therefore‚ a contract could be formed. An offer is formed as HE ltd posted an offer to sell 10 laptops to GCS‚ keeping the offer open until the 24th September. A statement is made by HE ltd who is giving information to GCS expressing an intention to sell
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Formation of contract‚ requirements of writing and personal bar (formative written exercise) The main point of this scenario is whether Alana‚ the previous inhabitant of the home‚ and Edwina‚ the current inhabitant‚ had formed a contract whereby the right of ownership had been passed over to Edwina. After two days of Edwina living in the house she received a letter from Alana telling her they had not formed a contract and that she would have to leave the premises. Over the course of this essay
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