Questions tagged [contract-law]
For questions about laws related to contracts, an agreement between two or more parties.
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Quitting before the start date: is the non compete enforceable?
Prospective employee E signed a job offer stating that his or her first day of work will be two months into 2022. The contract includes a non-compete agreement (NCA) of a duration of 8 months within ...
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Can a business put a specific cancel-by date into a contract?
I attended a gym in Michigan and canceled my membership on 8/28/19. I paid month to month and was under no long term contract. Even though I moved and haven't visited the gym since 8/17/19, I'm being ...
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Can Russia be sued over breaking gas contracts?
During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia has unilaterally demanded that "unfriendly countries" pay for Russian natural gas in Russian rubles, despite the existing contracts ...
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Can a "You must use this property as primary residence for x years" clause be added to home-sale? Would it differ if the buyer were taking a loan?
My friend and I were discussing the problem of investment properties; a residence owned by someone but not actually their primary residence (the problem being market inflation and reduction of ...
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What happens if an insurance company does not mention a critical clause of a policy during a telephone purchase?
Suppose one phones an insurance company and arrange and pays for car insurance. One then receives the documentation and there is an additional clause that was not mentioned that invalidates the ...
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The legal length of one month
Referring specifically to employment contracts in England, I've seen contracts that specify "one month of notice" to be given before termination of the contract.
This does not specify whether this ...
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How to prove the genuinity/nongenuinity of a signature?
I'm not a law student, but I'm very interested in the topic and learning in general.
I got curious about contracts and signatures recently, so I wondered if there have been cases where contracts ...
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Threatening to discontinue a service for a client
Say someone advertises for their website and says "Its 100% free to sign up" then have them check a checkbox acknowledging that the owner of the site can cancel the service for any reason when they ...
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Can someone legally require you to pay them back after passing on a discount?
Can someone who willingly let us use a “friends and family” discount at their place of work ask for it back in the form of money?
A friend regularly gets coupons from her employer. These coupons ...
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Is it legal to sign a “contract” like that of Colleen Stan to voluntarily bond oneself into slavery?
Obviously in Colleen Stan’s actual case there are several other problems: fraud/brainwashing/deception, possibly a lack of consideration, to name a couple.
But is there anything wrong in principle ...
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Is it against a Terms of Service/End-User License Agreement to not read it?
In many Terms of Service/End-User License Agreements, there is a statement either as art of the confirmation check box to agree to said agreement and/or as a part of the agreement itself that says ...
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What happens if I sell the same physical item to several people?
Follow-up question for Could a contract with ludicrous terms be enforced?
At the end of the hypothetical there, they raise the possibility of someone secretly selling the same physical item (a unique ...
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Do favors by friends and family create a monetary debt?
If someone has a business and has a favor done to help out with the business, by a spouse, other relative, or just a friend. Can the favor-doer later-on sue the business owner for money for it?
I'm ...
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Can copy-pasting a word definition from a dictionary site cause a copyright issue?
I just saw the following at the English language and usage stack exchange meta forum (ELU meta).
We should not be pasting definitions from online dictionaries into answers when their terms of service ...
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Do scans of signed documents have the same legal power as the original document?
It is quite common for various parties online to exchange signed documents in signed form (such as contracts for remote work). Would these documents have any power in a court of law? Is it necessary ...
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