Contracts in UK Law
- agency agreement
- as soon as practicable
- assumption of responsibility
- battle of the forms
- best efforts
- bill of sale
- caveat emptor
- commercial agent
- condition precedent
- condition subsequent
- confidentiality agreement
- contract formation acceptance
- contract interpretation
- contract law
- counter offer
- due diligence
- electronic contract
- electronic signature
- fit for purpose
- freedom of contract
- implied consent
- invitation to tender
- invitation to treat
- letter of intent
- limitation of liability
- memorandum of understanding
- misrepresentation deceit
- mutuality of obligation
- online contracts
- option to purchase
- part payment
- part performance
- personal service
- postal rule
- subject to contract
- sufficient consideration
- time is of the essence
- unilateral offer
- unincorporated associations
- unreasonably withheld
- utmost good faith
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Bell v Lever Bros Ltd
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There are certain contracts expressed by the law to be contracts of the utmost good faith where material facts must be disclosed; if not the contract is voidable. Apart from special fiduciary relationships contracts for partnership and contracts of insurance are the leading instances. In such cases the duty does not arise out of contract; the duty of a person proposing an insurance arises before a contract is made; so of an intending partner.
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Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society
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(1) Interpretation is the ascertainment of the meaning which the document would convey to a reasonable person having all the background knowledge which would reasonably have been available to the parties in the situation in which they were at the time of the contract.
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Rainy Sky SA and Others v Kookmin Bank
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If there are two possible constructions, the court is entitled to prefer the construction which is consistent with business common sense and to reject the other.
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Alexey Samarenko v Dawn Hill House Ltd
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That decision is entirely consistent both with the nature of a deposit and with the general approach of the law to repudiation and renunciation of contracts. Since the payment of a deposit at the executory stage of the contract is an earnest (or guarantee) of further performance, it is no surprise that a failure to pay the deposit on time is taken to demonstrate that the buyer is unwilling to perform the contract as a whole.
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Reardon Smith Line Ltd v Yngevar Hansen-Tangen (trading as H. E. Hansen-Tangen)
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Luxor (Eastbourne) Ltd v Cooper
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The general presumption is that the parties have expressed every material term which they intended should govern their agreement, whether oral or in writing. But it is well recognised that there may be cases where obviously some term must be implied if the intention of the parties is not to be defeated, some term of which it can be predicated that "it goes without saying", some term not expressed but necessary to give to the transaction such business efficacy as the parties must have intended.
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Marks and Spencer Plc v BNP Paribas Securities Services Trust Company (Jersey) Ltd
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If one approaches the question by reference to what the parties would have agreed, one is not strictly concerned with the hypothetical answer of the actual parties, but with that of notional reasonable people in the position of the parties at the time at which they were contracting. Secondly, a term should not be implied into a detailed commercial contract merely because it appears fair or merely because one considers that the parties would have agreed it if it had been suggested to them.
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Outcome-orientation in performance contracts
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Contractors and their Psychological Contracts
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DESIGNING CONTRACTS FOR COMPLEX SERVICES
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- Home building contracts
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UK: Insurance Contracts Bill
In January and March this year, the Law Commission published draft clauses as part of its Insurance Contracts Bill and invited consultation and comment not on the actual form of words but as to whe...
- Illegal Contracts
- Employment Contracts
- Sham Contracts
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Commercial Court forms including claims and application notices.... ... commercial fraud ... corporate or business acquisition agreements ... general commercial contracts and arrangements, including agency ... agreements ... insurance and/or reinsurance ... oil and gas and other natural resources ... ...
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Record of evidence (Officer of a company)
County Court forms including the N1 money claim form.... ... Is the company still ... How were assets ... disposed of? ... If No, when did the ... company cease ... Have you any current ... contracts? ... If Yes, what are they ... and what is their total ... Are there any staged ... Have you any future ... contracts? ... If Yes, what is the ... ...
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Respond to a money claim: unspecified amount
County Court forms including the N1 money claim form.... ... contributions, income tax and VAT ... I am in arrears and I owe ... £ ... Give details of: ... (a) contracts and ... other work in hand ... (b) any sums due ... for work done ... I have been unemployed for ... Personal details ... I am a pensioner ... 4 ... ...
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Give a record of evidence (individual debtor)
County Court forms including the N1 money claim form.... ... Inland Revenue to verify ... the information you have ... given in this section? ... Are you working on any ... contracts at the moment? ... Name and address of ... If Yes,give name and ... address and say when audit ... takes place? ... Date of audit ... If Yes, give ... ...