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Are the limitations on freedom of contract in common law countries unbreakable?
We normally have to adhere to regulations when:
Buying labour (employment: minimum wage, parental leave etc.)
Renting out property (tenancy: notice periods, property standards etc.)
Selling goods (...
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Can contracts include irrevocable terms of imprisonment for breach?
As noted here: At least in Israel, by agreeing to marry under religious law a person is irrevocably subject to that law's rulings, to the extent that a religious court can sentence one to a term in ...
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Does intent affect whether or not repudiation or fundamental breach has occurred?
Consider the case of nonpayment under a very simple contract, where the only promise made is that Person A will perform and deliver some specific work, and Business B will pay them a stated amount for ...
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Is the modification / removal of service by a private organization during the term of service illegal?
Suppose an organization have advertised to provide multiple services throughout the course of a year. Each service is sequential, one begins as the previous ends.
The organization has advertised that ...
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Can court enforce an implied contract?
We developed a demo for a client, who after the last meeting went silent and elusive claiming to be busy at our every request. After a year he launched the new website which was a copy and paste of ...
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How to prove I live in a specific address?
https://www.flhsmv.gov/ddl/address.html
I need to provide proof of address for the DMV, but the process can be difficult because:
I live with someone else; I do not pay rent/utilities; and they will ...
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What is a contract and what is required for them to be valid?
What is a contract?
What elements are required for validity?
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Legal Term for Signing A Document That is Believed To Be Untrue
Is there a term in Law for when someone signs a document as true when said individual is under the belief that the contents of the document are untrue?
For example, if I was asked to sign a document ...
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Is there a legal analogy of a publisher for physical things
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Long and complex story short, we're essentially building a legal & software framework for self-organizing 'ad-hoc' organizations. It seems like some set of our issues could be solved ...
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Pay electricity bill after being evicted on no contract?
I moved into a house and started paying rent of $110 per week however I was unaware that none of the other tenants (and hence myself) were on a contract so we were essentially squatters. The ...
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Can a company handle paying taxes and other bureaucracy work for a freelancer
Pardon my terminology. I'm very much not a lawyer, but I used to watch Ally McBeal as a kid, so I think I got the hang of this.
This is actually a subset of a vastly larger problem, so the ...
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Legal definitions in the United States
When trying to learn about and understand law, one of the most important aspects of it is the legal definition of a word. Is there a source in which the courts refer to when looking to define a word? ...
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