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  2. Enumerated powers (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The defining example of the Necessary and Proper Clause in U.S. history was McCulloch v. Maryland in 1819. The United States Constitution says nothing about establishing a national bank. The U.S. government established a national bank that provided part of the government's initial capital.

  3. Contractual term - Wikipedia

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    Reasonableness and equitableness: The implied term must be reasonable and equitable. In Biotechnology Australia Pty Ltd v Pace, [17] it was held a term that imposes a significant detriment or burden on the other party is unlikely to be equitable. Business efficacy: The implied term must be necessary for the business efficacy of the contract ...

  4. Contractual terms in English law - Wikipedia

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    These terms will be implied into all contracts of the same nature as a matter of law. Statutory. The rules by which many contracts are governed are provided in specialized statutes that deal with particular subjects. Most countries, for example

  5. Implied terms in English law - Wikipedia

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    In English law, implied terms are default rules for contracts on points where the terms which contracting parties expressly choose are silent, or mandatory rules which operate to override terms that the parties may have themselves chosen. The purpose of implied terms is often to supplement a contractual agreement in the interest of making the ...

  6. Necessary and Proper Clause - Wikipedia

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    For example, Congress in the Federal Kidnapping Act (1932) made it a federal crime to transport a kidnapped person across state lines because the transportation would be an act of interstate activity over which the Congress has power. It has also provided justification for a wide range of criminal laws relating to interference with the federal ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Agency in English law - Wikipedia

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    Express actual authority means an agent has been expressly told (i.e., explicitly told) they may act on behalf of a principal. Ireland v Livingstone (1872) LR 5 HL 395; Implied actual authority. Implied actual authority, also called "usual authority", is authority an agent has by virtue of being reasonably necessary to carry out their express ...

  9. Implicature - Wikipedia

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    Rieber takes above sentence to mean "Donovan is poor and (I suggest this contrasts) happy" and calls it a tacit (i.e. silent, implied) performative. Blakemore claims that "but" does not convey a proposition, and does not work by encoding a concept at all, but by constraining the addressee's interpretation procedure. [ 72 ]