LLB 120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Relying Party, Unconscionability
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Je maintiendrai pty ltd v quaglia (cb p231) Facts: je maintiendrai agreed indefinitely to reduce the rent paid by quaglia under the lease of a hairdresser"s shop. When quaglia later proposed to vacate the shop, je. Waltons stores (interstate) ltd v maher (cb p237) Promissory estoppel: where one party to a contract led the other party to believe that certain rights under the contract would not be enforced. Where the other party changed his or her position on the faith of that assumption, the first party would not be permitted to enforce his or her rights under the contract. Traditional limitations of promissory estoppel: required pre-existing legal relationship, i. e. lease high trees, musumeci, could only be used as shield, not a sword. Equity"s role in supplementing the common law of contract as a system of doctrines and remedies developed historically as a means of .
