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unusual facts about contract law



Jan Ramberg

Ramberg is the author of many academic books and articles on contract law, maritime law, transport law and Incoterms, published in English, German and Swedish.

Leslie Bates-Büyüktürkoğlu

Over her 15 years in Turkey, she taught English and contract law, she also represented American companies in the military market, and repaired helicopters for the Turkish Army.


see also

1889–90 flu pandemic

Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company - Case in English contract law, concerning an advertisement of 1891 for a putative flu remedy

Canadian contract law

Quebec, being a civil law jurisdiction, does not have contract law, but rather has its own law of obligations that is codified in the Quebec Civil Code.

Edgington

Edgington v Fitzmaurice (1885) 29 Ch D 459 is an English contract law case, concerning misrepresentation

Errington

Errington v Wood, a 1951 English contract law case concerning agreement

Indian Contract Act 1872

The Third Law commission of British India formed in 1861 under the stewardship of chairman Sir John Romilly, with initial members as Sir Edward Ryan, R. Lowe, J.M. Macleod, Sir W. Erle (succeeded by Sir. W.M. James) and Justice Wills (succeeded by J. Henderson), had presented the report on contract law for India as Draft Contract Law (1866).

Legal instrument

Many legal instruments were written under seal by affixing a wax or paper seal to the document in evidence of its legal execution and authenticity (which often removes the need for consideration in contract law); however, today many jurisdictions have done away with the requirement of documents being under seal in order to give them legal effect.

PECL

Principles of European Contract Law, a scholarly restatement of the contract law of European legal systems

Pitt v PHH Asset Management Ltd

Ewan McKendrick, Contract Law (7th edn Palgrave 2007) 91, says that being freed from the nuisance as being "good consideration" does not sit easily with White v Bluett.

Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire

For the English contract law case, see Wrotham Park Estate Co Ltd v Parkside Homes Ltd