Questions tagged [contract-law]
For questions about laws related to contracts, an agreement between two or more parties.
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May a person accept and keep bribes so long as they act lawfully?
This isn't a situation I'm in, but rather something I'm curious about.
If a private person (outside of any position of authority) is bribed to keep an illegal act they witnessed secret, but chooses ...
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Is it legal for someone to forge my signature with my knowledge and approval?
I recently had to sign some paperwork for a health insurance contract in Greece. I was in the UK at the time, so I had to have the thing mailed to me, sign it, and then mail it back. It occurred to me ...
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Is lying on a survey illegal?
If a survey is being done, either for scientific purposes or to collect information inside a workplace, is it legal to lie in it? For example if the workplace wants to know how many employees have ...
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What legal basis exists for challenging absurd (but technically-correct) invoices?
Every once in a while you hear stories about people getting hit with ridiculously high charges, such as for cell phone or cloud computing, e.g.:
In the cell phone case, this can happen when (for ...
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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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Do schools have permission to use pictures containing my face taken inside school forever if I agreed to it?
On day one of my first year in high school me and basically every other students were given a few documents to sign. One of them included a clause that allowed the school to publish pictures of us ...
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Does how a court interpret a contract depend on whether it's a layman or expert who wrote the contract?
The title sort of says it all, I'm wondering if a contract would be read differently or more literally if written, or signed, by a trained lawyer then if it was done by layman.
So let's say that I ...
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Can employer legally stop paying time & 1/2 to exempt employee after stating in the offer that they would do so?
Late July I got a job as a computer programmer on a 6 month contract with the agency that recruited me (although I actually work for another company). The job is W-2, paid hourly, but as I'm a ...
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Are "anti-exclusive" contracts legal?
Is it legal to have an "anti-exclusive" contract?
By anti-exclusive, I mean a contract that says, for example:
"This software can be used on any platform EXCEPT for X"
For a real ...
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What are my options legally if NYC company is not paying salary?
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I was just let go today, May 8. After being let go, 2-3 hours later I was asked to sign a general release. Obviously I declined. I told them I cannot sign a general release as I have a claim ...
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When can an NDA be legally broken?
This question is purely theoretical, I promise.
Let's say a person signed a Non-Disclosure agreement under certain terms, and then, somehow, they witnessed an illegal act but were forbidden to report ...
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By selling a flagged solution to a student to catch them cheating, would the seller be liable for the breach of contract?
This is a follow up question to this HNQ question from academia.
Suppose a student S posts an assignment for school/university/... on a freelancer website. A faculty member F sees this and agrees to ...
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Is it considered a breach of confidentiality if data is uploaded to a website which only makes that data available to the uploader?
I'm a developer working at a company that handles sensitive banking information and recently, I've had troubles organising my code and thus posted it in a private repository on Github, which only I ...
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Are there no limits to damage waivers or would this go too far?
I am going to make vacation on Hawaii next week. For one day we booked a Ziplining tour.
Just after the free cancelation date passed, I was sent a waiver which is required to be signed to participate.
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Can a salary be reduced?
My company is restructuring positions and salary ranges, and they are informing people about their new salaries (sometimes 20% lower than their current salaries).
Is it legal for the employer to lower ...
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