Common Contracts paper Alyssa Baker-Brake LAW/421 Lina Malanzo 07/01/13 Contracts are a written promise to do something‚ or not to do something. The purpose of the contract is to ensure that both parties will perform the duties that they have promised to do‚ or to prevent something that was promised to prevent. Contracts are here to ensure that people follow through with their word when they promise to do something. With a contract‚ you can make a promise a legal obligation. I have personally
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THE LAW OF CONTRACT IN GHANA (These notes have mainly been culled from Mrs. Christine Dowuona Hammond’s seminal work on the Law of Contracts.) INTRODUCTION Contracts are made by people every day‚ whether the parties recognise it or not. Each time one spends money on anything – a bus ticket‚ an airline ticket‚ a pair of shoes‚ a meal in a restaurant‚ laundry services‚ books‚ or signs a lease‚ etc. one concludes a valid and legally binding contract. Contracts may be oral or written;
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“The parties to an executory contract are often faced‚ in the course of carrying it out‚ with a turn of events which they did not at all anticipate – a wholly abnormal rise or fall in prices‚ a sudden depreciation of currency‚ an unexpected obstacle to the execution‚ or the like. Yet this does not in itself affect the bargain which they have made…” (per Lord Simon in British Movietonews Ltd. v. London and District Cinemas [1952] A.C. 166 at 185). Discuss this dictum and explain the respects in
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DISCHARGE OF A CONTRACT Normally the completion of a contract is straightforward as parties carry out their tasks as required. There are four main different ways of ending a contract: a) Discharge by performance b) Discharge by agreement c) Discharge by breach d) Discharge by frustration DISCHARGE BY PERFORMANCE For this the courts expect performance to be exact and complete. This means that it must match contractual obligations RE MOORE AND LANDAUER (1921) If requiring a contract to be complete
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1.Briefly explain the jurisdiction the Subordinate Court in Malaysia Subordinate Court in Malaysia consisting of two parts which is the Magistrate’s Court and the Sessions Court Magistrate’s Court: * Hear all civil matters of which the claim does not exceed RM2500 generally in criminal matters‚ the Magistrate’s court have power to try all offences od which of the maximum terms of imprisonment does not exceed 10 years or which are punishable with fire only but may pass sentences not exceeding
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case (1602) 5 CoRep117a is that part payment of debt is not good consideration to forgo the balance. Thus the creditor may sue for the remaining debt unless there is fresh consideration. Promissory estoppel like proprietary estoppel is popular types of equitable estoppel. The importance of equitable estoppel was stated in Crabb V. Arun DC (1976) 1 Ch 179 that “equity comes in........ to mitigate the rigours of strict law.......... it prevents a person from insisting on his strict legal rights
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Contract Reflection Yinan Edwards Law 421 7/14/2014 Miriam Gold Contract Reflection After four weeks of studying‚ I found it that I am comfortable with week 2 and week 3‚ but I struggled with week 1 and week 4. Since my background is different from others‚ and China has few in common with the American law system‚ I found it very difficult to understand the law structure and the UCC sales. In the other hand‚ I had a few jobs in a special field‚ and I have run into some problems which are related
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Title Name BUS 311 Business Law I Professor Date Situations that involve written and oral contracts between clients and contractors happen every day. Quite often‚ a price is agreed upon based on a completion date and the performance that happens along the way. One such situation that I have experienced was when my Dad decided to purchase a brand new townhouse in a downtown Cincinnati residential redevelopment project. A private contractor named Drees had won the rights from the city to
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Contract is an agreement between two or more competent parties in which an offer is made and accepted‚ and each party benefits. No contract can come into being unless the following features exist: an actual offer‚ an acceptance‚ consideration (this means that each party will contribute something of a material value to the bargain) and an intention to create legal relations. The agreement can be formal‚ informal‚ written‚ or just plain understood. (a) For a contract to exist the offer must be made
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the American one‚ United Kingdom’s (UK) and Hong Kong’s (HK) do not recognize the approach of general principle of good faith in contract law‚ as illustrated in Walford v Miles1. Yet‚ good faith should be promoted in UK and HK because one should value fairness in the whole course of dealing‚ from the point of pre-contractual negotiations till the discharge of he contracts. This essay aims at showing the merits of a good faith doctrine and possible implications on the UK and HK legal system so as to
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