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  2. United States contract law - Wikipedia

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    An acceptance is an agreement, by express act or implied from conduct, to the terms of an offer, including the prescribed manner of acceptance, so that an enforceable contract is formed. [ 2 ] In what is known as a battle of the forms , when the process of offer and acceptance is not followed, it is still possible to have an enforceable ...

  3. Implied terms in English law - Wikipedia

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    Terms can be implied into contracts according to the custom of the market in which the contracting parties are operating. The general rule, according to Ungoed Thomas J in Cunliffe-Owen v Teather & Greenwood, [6] is that the custom must be: certain, notorious, reasonable, recognised as legally binding and consistent with the express terms

  4. Law of California - Wikipedia

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    Even when a prior legal decision does not create a binding precedent, the text of the court's opinion may still help lawyers and judges understand California law. [9] Some types of prior decisions may be cited as non-binding authority in California courts, while others can only be consulted informally.

  5. Good faith (law) - Wikipedia

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    In U.S. law, the legal concept of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing arose in the mid-19th century because contemporary legal interpretations of “the express contract language, interpreted strictly, appeared to grant unbridled discretion to one of the parties”. [1] In 1933, in the case of Kirke La Shelle Company v.

  6. Contractual term - Wikipedia

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    A contractual term is "any provision forming part of a contract". [1] Each term gives rise to a contractual obligation, the breach of which may give rise to litigation. Not all terms are stated expressly and some terms carry less legal gravity as they are peripheral to the objectives of the contract.

  7. Contractual terms in English law - Wikipedia

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    These are terms that have been implied into standardised relationships. Common law. Liverpool City Council v Irwin [18] established a term to be implied into all contracts between tenant and landlord that the landlord is obliged to keep the common areas in a reasonable state of repair.

  8. Incomplete contracts - Wikipedia

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    The terms and provisions of the contract still have influence and are binding on the parties to the contract. As for contractual incompleteness, the law is concerned with when and how a court should fill gaps in a contract when there are too many or too uncertain to be enforceable, and when it is obliged to negotiate to make an incomplete ...

  9. Offer and acceptance - Wikipedia

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    A contract will be formed (assuming the other requirements for a legally binding contract are met) when the parties give objective manifestation of an intent to form the contract. Because offer and acceptance are necessarily intertwined, in California (US), offer and acceptance are analyzed together as subelements of a single element, known ...