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INCONSISTENT CONTRACTS [2 records]

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Record 1 2015-07-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial and Other Bodies (Law)
  • Sales (Marketing)
CONT

The rules of the common law, including the law merchant, save in so far as they are inconsistent with the express provisions of this Act, and in particular the rules relating to the law of principal and agent and the effect of fraud, misrepresentation, duress or coercion, mistake, or other invalidating cause, continue to apply to contracts for the sale of goods.

OBS

... that part of the law of England which governs mercantile transactions. It is founded upon the general custom of merchants of all nations, which, though different from the general rules of the common law, has been gradually engrafted into it and made to form part of it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes commerciaux ou non (Droit)
  • Vente
OBS

Branche du droit qui a pour objet, au Moyen Âge, l'activité de la catégorie sociale des marchands.

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-07-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Contracts-inconsistent contracts-whether later contract inconsistent with earlier contract will, without more, constitute breach of the earlier contract-exchange of draft contracts by email-When a communication or group of communications will constitute a binding agreement in the absence of a signed, formal contract.

OBS

Term usually used in the plural

Key term(s)
  • inconsistent contract

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

Terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel

Key term(s)
  • contrat incompatible

Spanish

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