WEEK 3 – THE FORMATION OF CONTRACTS Apply Your Knowledge (EXERCISE 4 – CONTRACT OR NOT?) Review the essential elements of a valid and enforceable contract and decide whether a valid‚ void or voidable contract has been formed in each of the following situations. Provide a legal explanation for your decision. 1. Last year‚ Smith‚ the owner of a retail business‚ in an attempt to reduce employee absenteeism due to illness‚ offered to give any employee who quit smoking for a year a $500
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Tutorial 5 1. Naeve Soh‚ a diploma holder enters into an employment contract with a company as an accounting assistant. The working hours are 8am to 9pm daily except for Sundays and Public Holidays. The pay is $2100 per month. The market rate for a similar job is $3700 and employees in similar jobs in other companies work generally only from 8 am to 6 pm. After working for two months Naeve Soh feels all this is very unfair and wants to challenge it. (a) Assuming there is no statute prohibiting
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agreement can be objectively established where there is mutual assent.6 In Masters v Cameron‚7 it was noted that‚ ‘the case may be one in which the intention of the parties is not to make a concluded bargain at all‚ unless and until they execute a formal contract’. Such intention can be
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Contracts Cyril made two contracts. The first was to have his house painted one month from the date of the written contract. The second was for his neighbor’s 1957 Ford Thunderbird. Each contract was definite and clear in all respects. As to the house painting‚ Cyril inquired with the painter as to when the work could begin. The painter explained that he was extremely busy and was not sure if he could fulfill the contract. Cyril flew into a rage and immediately hired someone else
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Limited Head Office‚ Dhaka. THE CONTRACT ACT‚ 1872 Md. Hasan Imam Manager Board Division Introduction: The law of contract is the foundation upon which the superstructure of modern business is built. It is frequent that in business transactions quite often promises are made at one time and the performance follows later. The law of contract is applicable not only in business community‚ but also to others. Everyone of us enters into a number of contracts almost everyday‚ and most of the
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The Law of Contract Voidable Contract – Coercion The word “contract” can be defined as a voluntary‚ deliberate‚ and legally binding agreement between two or more competent parties. Contracts are usually written but may be spoken or implied‚ and generally have to do with employment‚ sale or lease‚ or tenancy. A contractual relationship is evidenced by an offer‚ acceptance of the offer‚ intention to create legal relations‚ consideration‚ certainty and capacity. However‚ while all parties may expect
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Nizhny Novgorod Branch Law faculty The Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law Essay Topic: Freedom of contract in English Contract law Written by 10 Ю-3 group student Buzhak A.S. Under supervision of Popova T. P. PhD‚ docent Nizhniy Novgorod‚ 2013 Contract law is designed to protect not only the contractor‚ but also the consumer. Freedom to contract is the freedom of individuals and corporations to form contracts without government restrictions
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an era where the exercise of law of freedom were extremely restricted. In today’s English law‚ freedom of contract is one the foundation of contract law. The existence of freedom of contract requires three main considerations: the freedom to contract or not to contract‚ the freedom to choose with whom to contract‚ and the freedom to decide the terms of the contract. Thus parties are totally free to engage or not to engage in agreements. However‚ freedom of contract can fail to have the desired
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Lewis Outlined below is a neutral perspective on a civil law scenario. The text will include an unbiased opinion on whether Susan had any form of contract with House of Lewis Stores LTD and a personal opinion in relation to a compensation claim. Contract law and a personal interpretation will also be discussed. The presence of a contract is only determined when a certain criteria is met‚ this is what known as the elements of a contract‚ these are as follows; The first of these is the offer‚ there
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