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MISREPRESENTATION PERSONS [2 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2015-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
CONT

The idea that contractual obligations are based on agreement must... be qualified in relation to the scope of the principle of freedom of contract. In the nineteenth century, judges took the view that persons of full capacity should in general be allowed to make what contracts they like, the law only interfered on fairly specific grounds such as misrepresentation, indue influence or illegality.

Key term(s)
  • contract freedom

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
DEF

Principe consacrant le droit de toute personne de s'engager librement dans un contrat.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Doctrinas, políticas y sistemas económicos
  • Derecho de contratos (common law)
DEF

Principio económico del liberalismo que defiende la posibilidad de concluir toda clase de acuerdos o convenios privados, para la realización de cualquier tipo de obra, proyecto, compraventa, etc.

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Record 2 2004-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Penal Law
  • Copyright, Patent and Trademark Law
DEF

The wrong committed by a person who sells goods or carries on business, etc., under such a name, mark, description or otherwise in such a manner as to mislead the public into believing that the goods or business, etc., are those of another person.

CONT

One large area of unfair competition is what may be called, for lack of a better generic name, false marketing, which used to be called "passing off", and still quite often goes by that designation. It consists of the making of some false misrepresentation to the public, or to third persons, likely to induce them to believe that the goods or services of another are those of the plaintiff.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit pénal
  • Propriété industrielle et intellectuelle

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
  • Derecho penal
  • Derecho de propiedad industrial e intelectual
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