Keenan and Riches’BUSINESS LAW

Part 3Business transactions 276 Figure 8.2(continued) ...

Chapter 8Types of business contract 277 1 For each of the examples given below identify: (a)the different kinds of contracts des ...

Part 3Business transactions 278 Visit http://www.mylawchamber.co.uk/riches to access selected answers to self-test questions in ...

As we have already seen, a contract comprises a set of promises which the law will enforce. The obligations undertaken by the pa ...

The presence of a vague term will not prove fatal in every case. Various devices exist for ascertaining the meaning of terms. 1 ...

Chapter 9The terms of business contracts Puffs, representations and terms The first step in determining the terms of a contract ...

3 Term.Breach of a term of the contract entitles the injured party to claim damages and, if he has been deprived of substantiall ...

Chapter 9The terms of business contracts The division of terms into conditions and warranties was included in the original Sale ...

Types of express term The most common types of express term, which are often a particular feature of standard form contracts, ar ...

Chapter 9The terms of business contracts 2 By the common law.The courts will be prepared to imply a term into a contract in orde ...

trading stamps for goods. The sources of these implied terms are summarised in Fig 9.3. Exemption clauses Exemption clauses are ...

Chapter 9The terms of business contracts This general rule will not apply where the signer can plead non est factum(see Chapter ...

The more unreasonable a clause is the greater the notice which must be given of it. Some clauses would need to be printed in red ...

Chapter 9The terms of business contracts This common law position is now subject to the pro- visions of the Contracts (Rights of ...

The doctrine of fundamental breach The doctrine of fundamental breach was developed par- ticularly by Lord Denning MR in the Cou ...

Chapter 9The terms of business contracts (a) contracts of insurance; (b) contracts in relation to land. 5 The Act affords the gr ...

monopoly supplier, for example, will find it difficult to justify a wide exclusion clause. ■Whether the customer received an ind ...

Chapter 9The terms of business contracts Exemption of liability for negligence (s 2) Under s 2(1) no one acting in the course of ...

must compensate A for any claim which is made by C against A. A builder, for example, may get the owner of a house to agree to i ...

Chapter 9The terms of business contracts 295 Figure 9.5Exemption of statutory implied terms in contract for the supply of goods ...