accept the shares and the court held the refusal justified because such a proposal should have been accepted within a reasonable time. The period between June and November was clearly not reasonable. Issues: The issues in the above case deal with: Revocation of offer by lapse of time and provides for two situations: 1) Lapse of time occurring upon the expiration of the time prescribed in the proposal for its acceptance. Therefore‚ the issue in the case was that there was no specific time limit for
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received a letter of acceptance after 5 months. By the time he refused to accept the shares‚ the hotel claimed him for a bleach of contract. The court held that the offer to buy the shares had lapsed because of unreasonable delay in accepting. Revocation An offer can be revoked at any time before its acceptance. Which means even the offer is promised to be opened‚ the offeror is able to revoke the offer before the offeree accept the offer unless the offeror receives consideration. For example‚
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1. Gharar can be described as a technical regulation in Saudi that has specific implication when settling disputes. It is forbidden in Islamic law by Qur’an when the operation concerned is risky and could result in deceit of one of the parties (http://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gharar.asp). In this case‚ the U.S could claim that the reparation cost of breaching the contract could be classified as Gharar as it is specific to Islamic law: Saudi being an Islamic country with applicable jurisdiction
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The research by Dirks-Linhorst‚ Groom & Linhorst (2012) focused on the effectiveness of substance abuse treatment as an intermediate sanction on probationers in a jail setting who had been previously unsuccessful in completing community based treatment. Dirks-Linhorst et al. (2012) sought how this established method of treatment would differ among two separate groups of state probationers. One group of probationers was sent directly to jail upon their conviction and would participate in the Choices
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"Probation- A term coined by John Augustus‚ from the Latin verb "probare"- to prove‚ to test." http://www.nyc.gov/html/prob/html/history.html Probation can be dated as far back as the middle ages of English Criminal Law. Probation started as harsh punishments on children and adults that may have not been such a serious crime if any at all. The English used such sentencing as flogging‚ branding‚ mutilation‚ and execution. The harshness of these punishments eventually slowed down because
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Introduction Groups‚ as we have seen constantly try to enforce conformity on their members through the use of sanctions-- both positive and negative; formal and informal. In this section of the course‚ we’ll address how and why people deviate from social norms. Deviance is the violation of a social norm. Generally‚ "deviance" is regarded in a negative light‚ but there are many "positive" sides to deviance. For example‚ ice cream lovers in the United States have come to regard "Ben and Jerry’s"
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market. The problem emanates from the action of the stakeholders that revokes a signed contract with Royale Regale Properties a consulting group supposed to manage the hotel for ten years and decide moving into franchise with Marriot Hotels. The revocation came amidst the consulting group preparation to host the city festival in launching the hotel products into the competitive market. To justify stakeholder’s decision‚ the senior management applies a systematic decision making process of properly
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effective way to achieve a safe society (Tonry) and in an attempt to reduce the sheer number of prisoners‚ other methods of rehabilitation and punishment are sometimes used. The most common methods used are some form of probation or parole. While both probation and parole are alternatives to incarceration‚ there are both advantages and disadvantages to their uses and effectiveness. Probation is best explained by Frank Schmalleger as “a sentence served while under supervision in the community” (300)
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justice system‚ are being supervised in the community on probation or parole. This means that at any one time a large number of U.S. citizens are in the community under correctional supervision. For example‚ nearly 2 percent or 3.8 million adult men and women in the United States were being supervised in the community on federal or state probation or parole in 1995 (Bureau of Justice Statistics‚ 1997). While probation and parole are both considered community corrections
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provide the origin of rehabilitation. Next I will give a definition of parole and how it is different from mandatory release. I will also be giving a definition of probation and how probation compares to other forms of sentencing. This paper will also provide a definition as well as the options of community corrections. Lastly‚ I will critique the current rehabilitation and give my opinion on a better solution to the current parole process‚ the current probation system‚ and the current community corrections
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