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Contract Law Termination

London Drugs
•    The bailor sueing the bailee in negligence (tort)
•    The most obvious way to invoke the contractual defence is to show that one is a party to the contract.
o    Must determine whether the employees were parties to the contract.
o    On what legal theory can we make the employees party to the contract?
•    3 standard […]

Damages in Contract Law

Contracts and Torts
•    The relevance of tort principles and contract principles differ in different scenarios.
•    when trying to determine whether a pre-contractual utterance is of legal significance, and whether that significance sounds in contract or sounds in tort, it is an either/or choice.
•    Most pre-contractual utterances don’t have any legal significance, but supposing it does […]

Law of Contract

Exception Clauses p. 838
•    Warranty, in its technical meaning, is a sub-contract
•    It has a technical meaning
o    Close reading; strict construction
•    Wallis v. Pratt – “warranty” did not apply to exclude the implied statutory “condition” of the Sale of Goods Act that products must correspond to their description.
o    ¶5 - exclusion of “any warranty of […]