What are the defenses to a breach of contract? If someone is accused of breach of contract‚ there are a number of defenses available to argue that a contract should not be enforced. If any of the basic contract elements are missing‚ or if the contract was made with someone of diminished capacity or for illegal purposes‚ a contract can be unenforceable. Some other examples of potential defenses to enforcement of a contract are mutual or unilateral mistake‚ duress or undue influence‚ unconscionability
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The Treaty of Versailles was unfair to many nations‚ but to Germany in particular. When the meeting to discuss the treaty was held the German representative was not invited. The other countries decided Germany’s fate for them. They confiscated much of German land and German colonies and divided it among themselves. Germany lost 13% of its land and 12% of its population. Furthermore Germany was left with a weakened army and navy marking them defenseless against surrounding countries. Woodrow Wilson
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THE ROLE OF CONSUMER PROTECTION AGENCY AND THE JUDICIARY ON CONSUMER PROTECTION A consumer can be defined as someone who acquires goods or services for direct use or ownership rather than for resale or use in production and manufacturing. Consumer protection consists of laws and organizations designed to ensure the rights of consumers as well as fair trade competition and the free flow of truthful information in the marketplace. The laws are designed to prevent businesses that engage in fraud
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Discrimination and Equal Protection Christine McGee EDL 535 October 13‚ 2014 Dr. Rahim Jones Discrimination and Equal Protection The U.S. Constitution‚ Amendment XIV‚ Section 1 states “. . . no state shall . . . deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” In the United States‚ all students have the right to a free public education from Kindergarten to the 12th Grade. This Amendment includes non-citizens who are in the United States illegally have the right to attend
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editor-in-chief “T h e c o u n t r y c o m e s f i r s t – a l w a y s a n d e v e r y t i m e ” . T he Indian Armed Forces inherited a very robust tradition of jointness‚ thanks to their large scale participation in World War II. That was the era of Admin Boxes in Burma where military garrisons cut off by Japanese infiltrating columns were kept supplied from the air and given fire support by the Royal Indian Air Force. No wonder‚ after independence‚ the British leadership heavily emphasised
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CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT‚ 1986 [Act No. 68 of Year 1986‚ dated 24th. December‚ 1986] An Act to provide for better protection of the interests of consumers and for that purpose to make provision for the establishment of consumer councils and other authorities for the settlement of consumers’ disputes and for matters connected therewith Be it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows: - CHAPTER I: PRELIMINARY 1. Short title‚ extent‚ commencement
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Legal Defenses Checkpoint Elizabeth Stebbins 220 March 1‚ 2013 David McNees Legal Defenses Checkpoint Three legal defenses that could be used in court to excuse behavior are insanity‚ self-defense‚ and entrapment. Insanity is when the defendant did not know what he or she was doing at the time of the crime‚ or did not know that it was wrong. It is when the individual is not in their right mind because of mental illness or such. Usually they are sent to psychiatric facilities for treatment
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doing other important activities he should be doing. For Instance‚ a cartoon called tom and jerry‚ which I loved to watch when I was young‚ is very addictive‚ is based on a cat and mouse fight where the cat always tries to catch the mouse. In most cases the cat fails to do this‚ however. you learn violence from this‚ in confidence and inability to try to reach your goal. In conclusion‚ Televison can lead to benefits or bad effects on children depending on hoe its used. Parents
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I believe that this quote means to me was how unfair of the government to contradict their own people in which African-Americans were not able to have the same rights of the White Americans. Jim Crows laws were so cruel to the extreme that they were able to control the lives of the African-Americans. In this essay I will be reviewing over some of the Jim Crow laws and further explain the effects it has on each individual African-American. The first law I want to cover is the law about nurses. No
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Criminal Defense Case Analysis Michael Kilgore CJA/354 February 02‚ 2015 Peter Lukevich Criminal Defense Case Analysis One of the greatest right’s we have in America is the right to be innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. It is ultimately the job of the prosecutor to prove to the people‚ the jury and to the court that the accused is in fact guilty of a crime. The accused either has his own or appointed attorney to present his various defenses to argue why he acted the way he did during
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