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Specialty subject digests exist, such as the Education Law Digest, and the Social Security Digest. For nationwide research, about once a month, West publishes a General Digest volume, which incorporates classified digest notes from all reporters of the West National Reporter System. These are then cumulated into a Decennial Digest. Decennial ...
Agreement was essential to a valid contract under Roman law. Without a meeting of the minds, the contract was void. [6] The result of this was that animus was needed from both parties, both in order to accept the burden and in order to accept the benefit of the contract. The texts cover two situations where agreement fails.
"Contracts" The Conflict of Laws. Second Edition. Stevens and Sons. 1980. Chapter 13. Page 209 et seq. Dicey. "Contracts: General Rules" and "Particular Contracts". A Digest of the Law of England with Reference to the Conflict of Laws. London. 1896. Chapters 24 and 25. Page 540 et seq. Joseph Story and Isaac F Redfield. "Foreign Contracts".
The history of contract law dates back to ancient civilizations and the development of contract law has been heavily influenced by Ancient Greek and Roman thought. There have been further significant developments in contract law during and since the Middle Ages and especially with the development of global trade .
Note, therefore, that it is improper to say that quasi-contract, implied in law contract, and unjust enrichment are all synonymous, because unjust enrichment is only one type of the broader category of quasi-contracts (contracts implied in law). [11] Contracts implied in law differ from contracts implied in fact in that contracts implied in law ...
Authors such as W. W. Buckland and Barry Nicholas believe Justinian's claim that this was a new form of literal contracts to be badly mistaken, the latter suggesting it was created mainly to bring the number of types up to four, the preferred number of divisions. [17] [18] Accordingly, no mention is made in the Digest to the original form. [9]
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 ...
The superior knowledge doctrine is a principle in United States contract law which states that the government must disclose to a contractor any otherwise unavailable information that is vital to contract performance. It is also referred to as "the Helene Curtis doctrine of superior knowledge.