Void and Voidable Contract 17/11/2013 INTRODUCTION A contract is an agreement with specific terms between two or more persons or entities in which there is a promise to do something in return for a valuable benefit known as consideration. It is a voluntary‚ deliberate and legally binding agreement which becomes legally valid if meeting of minds exists between the contracting parties and establishment of a legal relation/obligation between the parties for a legal consideration and
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In the business world‚ people need to comprehend the business law and legal work that applies for all their business activities. Each decision that many industries makes must be considered from a legal point of view in order to ensure that it avoids severe lawsuits and satisfies the law. It is‚ especially‚ essential for people to understand the law applications that goes into a situation because there are many cases where there are various laws included in the matter. Because of those various laws
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him‚ coral reefs‚ which he finds very beautiful. It was given to him when he was smoking a joint‚ and he coughed liked crazy‚ so his friends began calling him Reef. 2. Reef has been given a second chance because the judge decided to implement restitution instead of punishment. Reef now has the chance to give back to the community‚ and change his ways. The judge could have decided to send Reef to jail‚ but that wouldn’t have taught him anything useful‚ so the judge makes him do something that is
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Remedies Final Summer This fact pattern is regarding the misbehavior of Sony and its brand of music cds. In an effort to combat piracy‚ Sony hired a company to design a copy-protection system called XCP. This software was imbedded onto Sony’s cds and this software was designed to prevent unauthorized replication. If you tried to play a protected disk in your computer‚ you first had to agree to install a Sony music player to listen to it. Yet‚ this software used malware tactics‚ it took over the
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surviving family never received compensation. The family was ridden with their own illness‚ and unable to afford health insurance and lived in poverty. Rebecca tried to reveal the untold stories and help the surviving members‚ however all attempts for restitution
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Community corrections is a range of alternative punishments for nonviolent offenders. There are two basic community corrections models in the United States. In the first model‚ integrated community corrections programs combine sentencing guidelines and judicial discretion ("front-end") with a variety of alternative sanctions and parole and probation options. In the second model‚ some states have instituted programs in which correctional officials may direct already sentenced offenders into alternative
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The advantages and disadvantages of probation and parole What is probation? Probation is a court order sentencing that consist of the defendant to either serve or complete the remaining sentence of imprisonment in a supervised community. The defendant that’s assigned to completing a probation sentence will be under supervision of an officer of the court; which are referred to as a Probation Officer. Probation is one of the most common criminal sentencing processes in the United States. A probation
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Company Description The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)‚ formerly known as the Food Stamp Program‚ is the United States government largest food assistance program. It provides a protection for low-income people in the United States to meet food and nutrition needs. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers SNAP at the Federal level through its Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). The program started in April 1939 and was credited to various people‚ most notably
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Sentencing is an important aspect in the criminal justice process. It is the punishment defendants receive when they are convicted of a crime. The punishment spectrum is wide and vast‚ ranging from probation to death. Punishment and sentencing present some of the most complex issues of the criminal justice system. There are four main philosophical reasons surrounding the purpose of sentencing; they are retribution‚ deterrence‚ incapacitation and rehabilitation. Retribution is the philosophy
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calamities heaped upon the world. However‚ the Council did perform some actual duties. One duty of the Council was to assist in Joseph Smith’s 1844 campaign for President of the United States. Smith ran on a platform among church members of bringing restitution for land and property lost in Missouri‚ eliminating slavery‚ compensating slave-owners with the sale of private lands‚ reducing the salaries of members of Congress‚ eliminating debt imprisonment‚ etc. Members of the Council campaigned throughout
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