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First, where a party to a contract exercises an express right of termination, he or she is sometimes said to have exercised a right to rescind the contract. Secondly, where a party is faced with a repudiation, the party can elect to terminate the contract; this too has often been referred to as an election to rescind. "Rescission" at common law.
The right of rescission gives you the legal grounds to rescind (hence the name) your portion of certain home financing agreements. In other words, a rescission, in mortgage speak, is your chance ...
Equitable rescission; Equitable rescission gives the innocent plaintiff the right to undo or rescind a contract when the plaintiff entered the contract as a result of fraud, misrepresentation, etc., or when the contract has been breached by the other party. To restore the situation to what it was before the contract, both parties need to return ...
Collateral mistakes will not afford the right of rescission. A collateral mistake is one that "does not go to the heart" of the contract. For a mutual mistake to render a contract void, then the item the parties are mistaken about must be material (emphasis added). When there is a material mistake about a material aspect of the contract, the ...
Also, there is a category of contracts which, for some reason or the other (e.g. lack of free consent) can be deemed voidable by the party which consent was not free. This party has the right to have the contract rescinded. Relief by way of rescission is provided by Chapter IV of the Specific Relief Act.
The Truth in Lending Act (TILA), or Regulation Z, is a federal law that protects you from unfair and predatory lending practices. Under TILA, you have the right to rescission. This is a consumer ...
Rescission is the noun form of the verb "to rescind." It may refer to: Rescission (contract law) Rescission bill, a procedure to rescind previously appropriated funding in the United States; A synonym for repeal in parliamentary procedure; Several bills which have used the term in their names:
The Rescission Act of 1946 (Pub. L. 79–301, H.R. 5158, 60 Stat. 6, enacted February 18, 1946, codified at 38 U.S.C. § 107) is a law of the United States reducing (rescinding) the amounts of certain funds already designated for specific government programs, much of it for the U.S. military, after World War II concluded and as American military and public works spending diminished.