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    Contract Law: Case Summary

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    Assignement 1 contracts Sayres v. Wheatland Group‚ L.L.C.‚ 79 Va. Cir. 504 (Va. Cir. Ct. 2009) CASE SUMMARYPROCEDURAL POSTURE: Plaintiff filed suit against defendants alleging that the contract for the construction and sale of a home that was at issue in this case was void‚ invalid‚ and unenforceable. Plaintiff also alleged that he was entitled to rescission and cancellation of the same contract. Defendants filed a counterclaim for specific performance of the contract of sale. Plaintiff moved

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    Jan 2009 a V and P entered a standard form contract for sale of property in SYD‚ with special condition that the “sale is subject to P completing the sale of his existing home in Brisbane by 1 June 2009” but no time for completion is specified and clause 29 of 2005 Standard Form is deleted. (Standard Form: completed with in 42 days of existing contract/ exchange of contract? Hence the qtn scenario means it’ll be deleted.) Is there a binding contract for SYD before this BNE condition is fulfilled

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    THE DUTY OF CARE IN IRISH TORT LAW Author: Anna Louise Hinds‚ B.Corp.Law‚ LL.B (N.U.I.)‚ LL.M (Bruges). Examiner – Legal Framework Formation 1. Introduction The duty of care arises in the tort of negligence‚ a relatively recently emerged tort. Traditionally‚ actions in tort were divided into trespass and trespass on the case‚ or simply ‘case’. Trespass dealt with the situation where the injury was immediate‚ in other words direct and foreseeable. Actions based in case however‚ covered consequential

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    Introduction: A contract is described as "an agreement giving rise to obligations enforced or recognised by law" (Doolan‚ 2003)‚ he continues to describe that a contract exists "when legally capable persons have reached agreement‚ or where the law considers them to have reached agreement" Doolan also illustrates that "The Law of Contract concerns itself with all contracts. Not alone does it apply to contracts worth considerable sums of money‚ but the same rules govern simple contracts‚ such as the

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    Contract Law Exam 2010

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    Graduate Diploma in Law Contract Law Examination Paper DATE: 16 June 2010 TIME: AM TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES Where questions are sub-divided‚ candidates should not expect the sub-divisions necessarily to be of equal weight. Materials provided: GDL Statutory Extracts (which MUST be returned UNMARKED at the end of the examination). You must answer THREE questions out of SIX Continued Overleaf OA6544 1 © The College of Law 2010 This is

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    Question TWO What is a "Breach of Contract"? A business contract creates certain obligations that are to be fulfilled by the people or companies who entered into the agreement.  In the eyes of the law‚ a party’s failure to fulfil an end of the bargain under a contract is known as a "breach" of the contract. Depending on the specifics of the contract‚ a breach can occur when a party fails to perform on time‚ does not perform in accordance with the terms of the agreement‚ or does not perform at all

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    081-AC1221-60 Company Law ASSIGNMENT ONE The case concerns the pre-incorporation contracts. Firstly‚ it is necessary to define the pre-incorporation contracts. They are the contacts which the promoter wants to enter the contract before a company is incorporated. Under Common law position‚ the company cannot gain contractual rights or incurs liabilities from a pre-incorporation contract. Also; the pre-incorporation contracts cannot bind the company. In this case‚ Bosco is the promoter who

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    Tort Law Case Study Essay

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    according to the textbook as an intentional tort against persons but could be put into intentional tort against property. Torts against persons are intentional acts that harm an individual’s physical or mental integrity (Kubasek‚ pg. 111). A person who is legally injured may be able to use tort law to recover damages from someone who is legally responsible‚ or “liable‚” for those injuries. According to the case‚ Prudence’s physical integrity was harmed

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    Joe claims that the contract is voidable. Discuss. Answer: The issues that arise in this case are: 1) Whether there is a relationship between Johnny and Victoria? 2) Whether Victoria used her dominant position to transfer all of Johnny’s property to her? 3) Whether Joe has the right to set aside/ rescind the contract? 4) Whether this presumption can be rebutted? Every person is competent to contract who is of the age of majority according to the law to which he is subject

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    Contract Law Case Study

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    A. Concern v Good The incident between Mr. Good and Mr. Concern is being introduced in this case. Mr. Good put up an article on The Best Daily saying that he would share half of the advertising cost for anyone who places an advertisement in Best Daily with the intention of ‘initiating major legal response to raise climate change consciousness of the people of Hong Kong’. Our client‚ Mr. Concern who responded to Mr. Good’s offer‚ placed advertisements in 15 newspapers expressing ‘support for social

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