James Leamon Johnson & Wales University Law 2001 Professor Bertron 01 Feb 2014 Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Co. v. Martinez Briefly explain the opinion. Which of Martinez’s claims were successful and which were not? Why (what was the court’s legal explanation)? In this case‚ Martinez brought forward three claims. First‚ he claimed strict product liability based on defective design of the tire. Martinez also claimed negligence and gross negligence. In their ruling‚ the jury found that the defective design
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Smoke Ball Co. Ltd published an advertisement in Pall Mall Gazzette offering that they would pay a sum of 100 pound to anyone who got contracted with influenza after using its product following the instructions provided with the smoke ball and they had deposited 1000 pound in the Alliance Bank to prove their seriousness over the advertisement. The plaintiff used their product but still contracted influenza. The plaintiff sued the company for 100 pound. But yet‚ Carbolic Smoke Ball Co Ltd mentioned
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CASE NOTE: JA PYE (OXFORD) LTD V UK1 For many years‚ there has been a certain ethical discomfort with the doctrine of adverse possession. Recently‚ this‚ this criticism has culminated in accusationsthataccusations that the law in this area violates the human rights of land owners.2 Over the next few pages I examine the case of JA PYE (OXFORD) LTD v UK. . I believe that the judgment in this case should be welcomed as it may help to clarifyclarifies the law in Ireland in this area. 3 I. THE FACTS
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Page 1 All England Law Reports/1990/Volume 1 /Williams v Roffey Bros and Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd - [1990] 1 All ER 512 [1990] 1 All ER 512 Williams v Roffey Bros and Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd COURT OF APPEAL‚ CIVIL DIVISION PURCHAS‚ GLIDEWELL AND RUSSELL LJJ 2‚ 3‚ 23 NOVEMBER 1989 Contract - Consideration - Performance of contractual duty - Performance of existing contractual duty - Agreement to pay additional money to ensure performance of existing contractual duty - Whether sufficient consideration
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MERCANTILE CAPITALISM AND STATE MAKING According to this weeks readings and lectures the most important question we have to ask is how does the modern state emerge? There are two facts which helped modern states to be occur which are war and capitalism. If we associate modern states with capitalism we can say that mercantile capitalism and state making strengthed each other. I want to explain how does capitalism helped modern states. First of all mercantile capitalism started with geographic expeditions
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Established in 1988 in Shenzen‚ China‚ Huawei Technologies Co.‚ Ltd. has been ranked not only as one of the fastest growing companies.( Huawei media release) but also as one of the fastest growing telecommunications network providers globally.(ZDNet Asia 2006) Armed with very strong cost leadership‚ there is no stopping of this upward trend which the company is currently exhibiting. Huawei Technology’s. vision has been to “To enrich life through communication” with a mission to “focus on its customers’
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According to Ekelund‚ the primary difference between Mercantile England and Mercantile France was that France had absolute property rights in taxation held by the crown until the end of the French Revolution (1799). This form of rent-seeking was successful for France‚ allowing a larger accumulation of wealth. Mercantile writer Gregory King estimated the “general income” of France in 1688 at £80‚500‚000 and of England at £41‚700‚000. While both the monarchs were eager to impose rent-seeking policy
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Name of Case in Proper Legal Citation Format Jones v. Star Credit Corp 59 Misc.2d 189 (1969) Who is/are the plaintiff(s) (i.e. consumer‚ company‚ employee‚ government) and what type of legal relief is/are the plaintiff(s) seeking? Plaintiffs who are welfare recipients agreed to purchase a freezer for $900‚ and purchase price came out to be $1234.80 with all the other added taxes. So far the plaintiffs have paid $619.88‚ however the freezer is only worth about $300. What legal question
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Annie hired a removal firm‚ XY & Co‚ to move the contents of her housein Plymouth to a house which she had bought in Worcester. The removal van and all its contents were destroyed by fire in a layby just outside Exeter. Some time after the loss‚ Annie was told by an employee of XY & Co that the van had been deliberately set on fire so that XY & Co could claim from their insurers for its loss. Annie is suing XY & Co for the value of her destroyed property‚ which she estimates to be £250‚000. She
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Gilford Motor Co V S Horne(1933) Horne was appointed Managing Director Gilford Motor Co 6-year term. He appointed by a written agreement says he will not solicit customers for their own purposes and whether he is a general manager or after he left. In order to avoid the effect of the agreement‚ Horne left Gilford Motor Co. and started his own company. Johnson’s company provides car accessories of Gilford Motor Co’s car in a weaken price and the shareholder of Gilford Motor being his associate in
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