Uncertainty is eroding commercial confidence as it is, without the government trashing contract law.
Of course, the many nuances of contract law should keep attorneys busy for years.
But, is this contract law principle enough to cancel the terms of a divorce settlement?
Right now, the rules--from health regulation to environmental regulation to taxes to contract law--are uncertain.
Terms of service are based in contract law, but their enforceability is a gray area in US law.
At least until the labour-contract law was enacted, many private enterprises provided nothing.
Formal contract law and a sophisticated judicial system form one institutional foundation for capitalism in the United States and Britain.
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This is forcing Japanese companies and foreign companies operating in Japan to use U.S. courts and U.S. contract law, he says.
The auto bailouts turned contract law on its head, as the White House subordinated bondholders' rights to those of its union allies.
As you undoubtedly could have predicted, the case is back in the courts, again, and many now see it as a landmark test for contract law.
They include a labour-contract law that came into effect on January 1st and which many employers fear could make it much harder to fire underperforming workers.
Here in the deep end of the pool, newly-minted billionaire Chinese executives are violating contract law, globally accepted corporate best practices and fiduciary responsibility to shareholders.
There is no admission of the value brought to the table by the administration of contract law and other busines oriented civil laws not to mention criminal laws.
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When I first heard that the SEC had declared there was no violation, but first thought was that they must be interpreting this provision in terms of contract law.
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However, Asian countries like China or Japan, where formal contract law is vague and the judicial system somewhat unreliable, have also been very successful, as long as they have the Magic Formula.
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It can only operate as it does because contract law and financial regulation provide a way for the community to enforce its decisions against members, and this is true for other online services.
John Marshall, our nation's fourth Chief Justice, led the Supreme Court in deciding several key cases that established the sanctity of contract law and breathed life into the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution.
"The one-page agreement that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences enters into with the recipients of Oscar awards raises enough tricky questions of property and contract law to pique the interest of property and contract scholars, " says Richard A. Epstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago.
In the U.K., private companies can actually contract with law enforcement to conduct and even arrest people accused of fraud.
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The extensive nature of the Code, including the contract-law-based mechanism for ensuring compliance with it, creates a system of accountability, albeit voluntary, over PSCs.
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It has nothing to do with bank concerns about contract and property law.
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"Unfortunately we're not able to provide any information by law and contract about the details of this consignment, " he said.
In Scottish common law a contract is void if a person was incapable of understanding and transacting the business in question.
Nor is it to rule out the right of an individual artist to negotiate a resale agreement when he sells a painting: the royalties a publisher pays to an author are the product of just such a private contract, not a law.
Let me give an example that illustrates how right-to-work law affects freedom to contract under current labor laws.
Law firms once shunned contract attorneys but now many firms use them, on the defense and plaintiff side.
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It concerns breaking a public procurement law by getting a contract (for supplying clocks with information panels to schools in Aquitaine) without a competitive tender.
What about rights to private property, to freedom of economic exchange, to the sanctity of contract, to equality before the law, to bear arms, to be left free of unreasonable searches, seizures or detentions?
Jeffrey Monsour, a 14-year employee of the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities, seeks unspecified damages, claiming violations of his rights to free speech and equal protection under the law, breach of contract and defamation.
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