held that the deed was given under coercion and was voidable at the option of the principal. UNDUE INFLUENCE Sometimes a party is compelled to enter into a contract against his will as a result of unfair persuasion by the other party. Section 16 defines undue influence as follows A contract is said to be induced by “undue influence”where the relations subsisting between the parties are such that one of the parties is in a position to dominate the will of the other and uses that
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Chapter III Commercial Law I. General Definitions a. Commercial Law→ It designates the whole body of laws & regulations applicable to relations between persons engaged in commerce‚ business or commercial professions. b. Commerce→ The word “Commerce” means the exchange of goods‚ products or property of any kind. It includes: sale‚ purchase‚ exchange of merchandises. c. Internal and International Commerce→ Internal: it is the commerce carried on between individuals or corporations within the same
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Common law 1 Common law Common law‚ also known as case law or precedent‚ is law developed by judges through decisions of courts and similar tribunals rather than through legislative statutes or executive branch action. A "common law system" is a legal system that gives great precedential weight to common law‚[1] on the principle that it is unfair to treat similar facts differently on different occasions.[2] The body of precedent is called "common law" and it binds future decisions. In cases
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What is land law in English law? Explain how the law distinguishes between whether a thing is a fitting or a fixture or part and parcel of the land itself. Introduction Land is what we step on‚ live on‚ it is very important in our daily life and land in every different area has its owner. That’s how we have the right to say this is mine and we’re the ones who choose what to do with it‚ add something to it or remove something from it‚ change it around or even get rid of it. That’s why we have this
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Lecture 2: PROMOTERS & PRE-INCORPORATION CONTRACTS James Mendelsohn BS3/16 01484 473607 james.mendelsohn@hud.ac.uk • • • • • Corporate personality Artificial‚ separate legal personality Registration at Companies House Limited liability Salomon • Issues arising from separate‚ artificial legal personality A. PROMOTERS • Background • Definition - no statutory definition - 2 common law definitions • Twycross v Grant (1877) 2 CPD – someone who “undertakes to form a company with
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Web Quiz Assignment Name: Adamson‚ Law for Business and Personal Use‚ 17e‚ Xtra! Quiz‚ Chapter 6 Offers that require the offeree to accept by communicating the requested promise to the offeror are: a. unilateral contracts. 1. b. bilateral contracts. c. matching acceptance rule. d. mirror image contracts. When the current market price is not specified in a contract between merchants for the sale of goods‚ but the current market price is understood to be the basis of the contract‚ the price
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RH Bill is NOW RH Law! After 14 years of struggle‚ the Reproductive Health Bill has finally been passed into law! Philippine President Benigno Simeon Aquino III quietly signed the bill into law last December 21‚ 2012‚ four days away before Christmas – for me the best Christmas gift for Filipino women and youth especially us RH advocates who were tireless in our efforts to lobby‚ dialogue‚ march on the streets and campaign for the passage of the RH Bill into a law. The new law will now be called
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INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE OF LAY ADVENTISTS OF KIGALI (INILAK) FACULTY OF LAW CRIMINAL PROCEDURE WORK DISCUSSION ON THE FACTS AND LEGAL ISSUES IN S V MAKWANYANE 1995 (3) S.A.391 (CC) Prepared by: Hyacinthe H. Kigali‚ March 2011 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS CC : Criminal Court Http : Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Ibid : Ibidem Id : Idem S v : State Versus S.A. : South Africa ULK : Kigali Independent University WWW : World Wide Web TABLE OF CONTENTS
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are teenagers. MTV’s show “16 & Pregnant‚” which has only been on air since June 2009‚ is already reflecting the rapid boom in teenage pregnancy across various cities in America. Since the early eighties MTV has been considered somewhat of a cultural phenomenon for American adolescents and its depiction of gender has a strong impact that continues to this day (Holtzman 2000). Created by Morgan J. Freeman (director of teen shows Dawson’s Creek and Laguna Beach)‚ the show “16 & Pregnant” has been said
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meaning behind mens rea lies within the mental element of the defendant in a crime. H.L.A. Hart states that “what is crucial is that those whom we punish should have had‚ when they acted‚ the normal capacities‚ physical and mental‚ for doing what the law requires and abstaining form what it forbids‚ and a fair opportunity to exercise these capacities. Where these capacities and opportunities are absent‚ … the moral protest is that it is morally wrong to punish because ‘he could not have helped it’ or
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