BSL 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Theft, United Nations Convention On Contracts For The International Sale Of Goods, Consequential Damages
10 Aug 2016
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In order to legally anticipate we must know three things. What type of problems create liability time bombs. Case exercise: failure to renew a license almost costs grand. Wilson was an architect who performed agreed architectural services totaling almost grand for the defendant, then sued for the breach of contract when his bill was unpaid. He was licensed under hawaii law but neglected to pay his annual renewal causing his certificate of registration to expire. The court ruled that wilson had violated a regulatory law and his contract was void. Disputes threaten social stability, the law has established an elaborate and evolving set of rules to resolve them. Protect the private ownership of property and to assist in the making of voluntary agreements ( aka contracts) regarding exchanges of property and services. Though a number of categories are possible the most useful ones are 1) substantive and procedural, 2) public and private and 3) civil and criminal.
