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  2. English contract law - Wikipedia

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    English contract law is the body of law that regulates legally binding agreements in England and Wales.With its roots in the lex mercatoria and the activism of the judiciary during the Industrial Revolution, it shares a heritage with countries across the Commonwealth (such as Australia, Canada, India [1]), from membership in the European Union, continuing membership in Unidroit, and to a ...

  3. Chitty on Contracts - Wikipedia

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    Chitty on Contracts is one of the leading textbooks covering English contract law. The textbook is now in its 35th edition. The textbook is now in its 35th edition. The first editors were Joseph Chitty the Younger and Thompson Chitty, sons of Joseph Chitty .

  4. Sale of Goods Act 1979 - Wikipedia

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    The Sale of Goods Act 1979 (c. 54) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which regulated English contract law and UK commercial law in respect of goods that are sold and bought. The Act consolidated the original Sale of Goods Act 1893 and subsequent legislation, which in turn had codified and consolidated the law.

  5. Unfair terms in English contract law - Wikipedia

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    Unfair terms in English contract law are regulated under three major pieces of legislation, compliance with which is enforced by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 is the first main Act, which covers some contracts that have exclusion and limitation clauses. For example, it will not extend to cover ...

  6. Interpreting contracts in English law - Wikipedia

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    The move to a contextual, or purposive approach to construing contracts is a recent feature of English contract law. For instance in 1911, in Lovell & Christmas Ltd v Wall Lord Cozens-Hardy MR stated, [3] it is the duty of the court… to construe the document according to the ordinary grammatical meaning of the words used therein.

  7. History of English contract law - Wikipedia

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    Modern English contract law is composed primarily of case law decided by the English courts following the Judicature Acts and supplemented by statutory reform. However, a significant number of legal principles were inherited from recording decisions reaching back to the aftermath of the Norman Invasion .

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  9. Category:English contract law - Wikipedia

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    Unconscionability in English law; Undue influence in English law; Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977; Unfair Contract Terms Bill; Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Directive 1993; Unfair terms in English contract law