Contract Law Dictionary Contract law dictionary: win your next game of strip scrabble. last updated Monday, September 06, 2010 Agency Law So much is, can and should be done via agents in today's complex international commercial world. This article gives you an "in's and out's" of this branch of the law; the law of agents and of agency. At the table are agents, principals and third-parties. last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Contracts With Children The law of children and their contracts .... voidable, but not always. last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012 How To Write A Contract Aka Contract Writing 101 or, if the phrase wasn't trade-marked, Contract Writing for Dummies! Why write a comic book when you can pen a Stephen King?! last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Part 1: Contract Law Withdraw contract and the members of the human community are atoms that cannot effectively combine. Suppose contracts freely made and effectively sanctioned, and the most elaborate social organization become possible. last updated Thursday, November 24, 2011 Part 2: Privity, Consent and the "Reasonable Man" Contract law can be like quantum physics for the sub-Mensa among us: the more you analyze it, the less you understand it. However, that why we're here! In this instalment, we look at the all-important elements of privity, consent and what the law calls the "reasonable man", as if such a beast exists. last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Part 3: Consideration & Deeds Consideration, in law, is a real pain in the neck, has little significance in the modern world and ought to have been abolished, as a necessary ingredient to a valid contract, years ago. Nobody can justify it much less explain it exactly ... until we came along, anyway. last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Part 4: Offer & Acceptance And it came to pass in those days, that there went out an Offerree with something to sell or exchange and thus was great with Offer and she met an Offeror and they went together onto the City of Acceptance and there she brought forth her newborn Contract and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes of judicial enforcement. last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Part 5: Mistake, Rectification & Misrepresentation Misteaks in kontracts rarly happen, espcially when smart, well-edukated lawyors are involved. But sometimes, not-very-smart non-lawyors do stuff in konttracts and then we smart lawyors have to come after them and try to fix their misteak. This is what this is about, down below there. last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Part 6: Restraint of Trade, Assignment, Novation & Frustration Restraint of trade, assignment, novation and frustration. What? Don't you know what these words mean in contract law? Of course not! That's why we're here! last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Part 7: Interpretation of Contracts Contra proferentem audi alteram partem de minimis non curat lex by or before 12 o'clock, Friday, October 32nd, 2018 notwithstanding. Huh?! Sometimes, contracts are written in a confusing way, subject to many interpretations. Here is the law's magic brew to resolve these problems. last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Part 8: Time Limits, Breach & Remedies Contract Law - Time Limits, Breach & Remedies. Contracts gone wild! last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012