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Contract Law Dictionary

Contract law dictionary: win your next game of strip scrabble.

last updated Monday, November 23, 2009

Contracts With Children

The law of children and their contracts .... voidable, but not always.

last updated: Friday, September 18, 2009

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: Friday, June 05, 2009

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: Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Part 2: Privity, Consent and the "Reasonable Man"

Contract law can be like quantum physics for the sub-Mensa amongst us: the more you analyze it, the less you understand it. However, that why we're here! In this installment, we look at the all-important elements of privity, consent and the what the law calls the reasonable man, as if such a beast exists.

last updated: Wednesday, May 12, 2010

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, May 12, 2010

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, May 12, 2010

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, May 12, 2010

Part 6: Restraint of Trade, Assignment, Novation & Frustration

Restraint of Trade, Assignment, Novation & Frustration. What? Don't you know what these words mean in contract law? Of course not! That's why we're here!

last updated: Friday, August 20, 2010

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 the above." Huh? Go figure! Sometimes, contracts are written in a confusing way, subject to two or more different interpretations. Here is the law's magic brew to resolve these problems.

last updated: Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Part 8: Time Limits, Breach & Remedies

Contracts gone wild! Take the uncensored tour! Check out all the smokin' online action when offeree and offeror don't get along and all (censored - four letter word ... the opposite of Heaven) breaks loose! Aka Time Limits, Breach & Remedies.

last updated: Wednesday, May 12, 2010

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Unless otherwise noted, this article was written by Lloyd Duhaime, Barrister, Solicitor, Attorney and Lawyer (and Notary Public!). It is not intended to be legal advice and you would be foolhardy to rely on it in respect to any specific situation you or an acquaintance may be facing. In addition, the law changes rapidly and sometimes with little notice so from time to time, an article may not be up to date. Therefore, this is merely legal information designed to educate the reader. If you have a real situation, this information will serve as a good springboard to get legal advice from a lawyer.

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