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  2. Taylor v Caldwell - Wikipedia

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    Mr Justice Blackburn began his judgement by finding that the agreement between the parties was a contract, despite their use of the term "lease".Under the common law of property in England at the time, under a lease the lessee would obtain legal possession of the premises during the lease period, while the "lease" at issue in this case specified that legal possession would remain with the ...

  3. United States contract law - Wikipedia

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    RE Barnett, The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Contracts (2010). MA Chirelstein, Concepts and Case Analysis in the Law of Contracts (6th edn 2010) EA Farnsworth, Contracts (2008) LL Fuller, MA Eisenberg and MP Gergen Basic Contract Law (9th edn 2013) CL Knapp, NM Crystal and HG Prince, Problems in Contract Law: Cases and Materials (7th edn ...

  4. Institutes of the Lawes of England - Wikipedia

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    The Institutes of the Lawes of England are a series of legal treatises written by Sir Edward Coke.They were first published, in stages, between 1628 and 1644. [1] Widely recognized as a foundational document of the common law, they have been cited in over 70 cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, [2] including several landmark cases.

  5. Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins - Wikipedia

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    Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court held that the United States does not have a general federal common law and that U.S. federal courts must apply state law, not federal law, to lawsuits between parties from different states that do not involve federal questions.

  6. Raffles v Wichelhaus - Wikipedia

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    Raffles v Wichelhaus [1864] EWHC Exch J19, often called "The Peerless" case, is a leading case on mutual mistake in English contract law.The case established that where there is latent ambiguity as to an essential element of the contract, the Court will attempt to find a reasonable interpretation from the context of the agreement before it will void it.

  7. Category:United States contract case law - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 23 November 2009, at 17:41 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  8. Jacob & Youngs, Inc. v. Kent - Wikipedia

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    Jacob & Youngs, Inc. v. Kent, 230 N.Y. 239 (1921) is an American contract law case of the New York Court of Appeals with a majority opinion by Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo.The case addresses several contract principles including applying the doctrine of substantial performance in preventing forfeiture and determining the appropriate remedy following a partial or defective performance.

  9. Impossibility of performance - Wikipedia

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    The doctrine [1] of impossibility or impossibility of performance or impossibility of performance of contract is a doctrine in contract law.. In contract law, impossibility is an excuse for the nonperformance of duties under a contract, based on a change in circumstances (or the discovery of preexisting circumstances), the nonoccurrence of which was an underlying assumption of the contract ...

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