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    there are requirements to form a valid contract other than offer and acceptance‚ that are‚ intention to create legal relation and consideration. What is consideration? It can be describe as being something which represent either some benefit to the person making a promise or some detriment to the person to whom the promise is made. The term consideration is given to the subject that is exchanged in a contract.1 It is a fundamental prerequisite in English contract law. 2 The courts has explained the

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    Machiavelli as well as Hobbes have different views but also had similar ones. Machiavelli was a man that was interested in the perseverance of the Prince rather than that of the regular people. On the other hand Hobbes was looking out for the well-being of the whole community. When we look at both we can see what they mean and how it is still relevant to today’s politics. There is also a third person to look at and compare with Machiavelli and Hobbes‚ which is Rousseau. Each of the men listen above

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    This paper explores‚ in three parts‚ Thomas Hobbes’ and John Locke’s competing conceptions of natural laws and rights‚ via Leviathan and Second Treatise of Government respectively. The arguments of both men follow a similar path: the establishment of the state of nature and laws and rights therein‚ the social contracting to eliminate undesirable aspects of such a state‚ and the detailing of explicit conditions that meet the desired end of peaceful society. Thus‚ the paper will be divided into three

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    MACHIAVELLI VS. ROUSSEAU Machiavelli and Rousseau were two great minds of European history. They both developed ideas on how to run a country. The two shared some of their views even though they were centuries apart‚ however‚ some ideas were very contradictory. Machiavelli believed in a very strict form of government. His time‚ 15th century Italy‚ was a time of princes and control over everything. People fought wars just to gain another city and blood and guts was a common occurrence

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    SALES CONTRACT No.57/2014 Ho Chi Minh City‚ May 19th‚ 2014 The Seller: Dalat Agriculture and Forestry JSC‚ Vietnam Address: 39 Phu Dong Thien Vuong Street‚ Ward 8‚ Da Lat City‚ Lam Dong‚ Vietnam Telephone: +84-63-656565 Fax: +84-63-665442 Email: info@dalatgap.com Represented by: Mr. Tran Thanh Sang Position: Director The Buyer: Shoei Foods Corporation Address: Shoei Bldg‚ 5-7‚ Akihabara‚ Taito-ku‚Tokyo‚ Japan Telephone: +81-33-2342345 Fax: +81-33-2672634 Email: shoeifoods@Shoeifoods

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    of thinking‚ most evidently through the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau was a passionate romantic thinker‚ conveying ideas of childhood innocence in Émile‚ ou De l’éducation (Emile‚ or On Education) and idealistic notions of the perfect human society in Discours sur l’origine (The Origin of Discourse) with his most well-known work acting as a philosophical cornerstone of the latter parts of the Revolution: The Social Contract. Rousseau’s incredibly influential writings were aimed

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    A contract -is a legal agreement that occurs between two or more parties. It can be a written or spoken agreement that can concern employment‚ sales‚ or tenancy. Parties or members involved‚ enter voluntarily into this agreement. Every contracts involve two persons they are the: Offeror and Offeree. The offeror is the one who offers to enter into a contract and the Offeree is the one to whom the contract is being offered Elements of a contract: Agreement‚ Lawful object‚ consideration and contractual

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    The Land Registration Act 2002 has actually replaced the previous legislation in particular The land Registration Act 1925 which governed and earlier though similar system but with the new statute now governs all matters concerning registered title. The Land Registration Act 2002 was introduced in response to the Law Commission and HM Land Registry report‚ Land Registration for the 21st(2002)1. The Land Registration Act 2002 came in to force on October 13th 2003 .  Its main objective is to provide

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    Hobbes Vs Kant

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    In the idea of human nature and reasons; we can indeed perceive a modern philosophy and ethics‚ by monitoring a reflection of insightful philosophers of Thomas Hobbes and Immanuel Kant. In this regard‚ however‚ Hobbes and Kant’s are differing in so many ways as they have entirely different perspective on the issue of morality and pragmatism. This disparity can be viewed‚ by how Kant’s view morality in more of a rationalistic way‚ while Hobbes being more empirical on the topic of ethics.Therefore

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    Machiavelli Vs Hobbes

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    Political Realism and Self Interest In this paper‚ I will be taking ideas from two philosophers‚ Niccolo Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes. Specifically‚ I will be focusing on the agreement and disagreement of the two philosophers listed above. Based on my interpretation from the two text‚ there has been an agreement between Machiavelli and Hobbes which states that there should be a strong central government to protect and control the people. The two have the same theory but they have different

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