Common descent

Hayes was forced to pay for the van because promoters can be held liable for the contracts they made for corporations that are not yet created. This liability can only be lifted with a novation, which is an agreement between the corporation and the third party to release a promoter. Since no corporation was created, the novation process cannot occur and Hayes will be held liable for the contract. Hayes was forced to pay for the van because promoters can be held liable for the contracts they made…

This situation between Kathryn and her uncle Howard is a tough one. First of all, Kathryn’s uncle Howard promised her $10,000 if she graduated from Cowley County Community College with a 3.0 GPA minimum and then backed out and told her he only said it to motivate her to make it through college. Kathryn did graduate from Cowley County Community College and she also managed to graduate with a GPA higher than what he said she needed to have in order to get the $10,000. I believe that in this…

cars can become common place on the nation’s roads? In recent years, multiple businesses and the United States government have invested in the research, development, and testing of self-driving vehicles. While these vehicles offer many national economic and safety benefits, many are concerned about the safety and legal problems that come with the hurried legalization of driverless cars. Should federal regulators quickly change the rules so that self-driving cars can become common place on the…

THIS AGREEMENT “Agreement” is made on this ___ day of ____ 20___ between Wayne Wannabe, the President and sole employee of Discount Legal Services Inc., to located at 100 N. Navel Ave., Osceola, Pennsylvania and I. M. King of the law firm of King & Queen, P.A. located at 100 S. Navel Ave., Osceola, Pennsylvania as follows: King &Queen, P. A. agrees to employ Wayne Wannabe for paralegal services for an upcoming trail in the matter of the state of STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA v. SPRINKLE which include…

Privacy Act 1988 is an Australian law that used to regulate on handling the personal information (Australian Government, 2015). Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) consists of principles are the basis of protection framework in Privacy Act 1988 and placed under schedule 1 with a total thirteen principles that organizations and government agencies should comply (OAIC, 2014). It is not necessary to follow each of the principles stated in APPs, but organizations are required to consider the…

Introduction For our seventh lesson in Portfolio Milestone I am choosing to explore Option # 2: Developing a defense for Richard based on facts, his age at the time of the offense, and state of mind during the offense. How he may have been better off with a jury trial. My original thoughts were that Richard was highly intelligent, articulate and should have known better. After further study I am thinking to some extent the system failed Richard and other youths in similar cases.…

For example, several components of English common law were taken into account when building the framework of our government, the most important of which was the Magna Carta, written in the Middle Ages. The Magna Carta introduced two crucial ideas - the idea of equality under the law and the right…

I. Relevant Law a. Introduction Partition is the most common legal action brought when co-owners cannot agree as to how a property should be utilized. This legal action allows the owners to convert the shared estate into two or more estates. All American jurisdictions recognize and authorize partition by judicial means through statute. Chapter 46 of the North Carolina General Statutes governs all partition actions in the state. b. Availability of Partition Proceeding The remedy of partition…

“The common law (also called judge-made law or case law) is a law made and applied by judges as they decide cases not governed by statutes or other types of law.” (Mallor, 2017, p. 3) Case law only exists on the state level in our American law system. It was introduced to America from the England settlers’ law system that was derived from the medieval England period. Judges within the states use common law to fill in the gaps when federal and state Constitution…

The doctrine of caveat emptor imposes no duty to the vendor to disclose any information concerning the property conditions. This doctrine requires that buyers bear the burden of examining and finding the defects in the title and in the condition of the property. In the case Johnson v. Davis, 449 So. 2d 344 (Fla. 3d DCA 1984), decision approved, 480 So. 2d 625 (Fla. 1985), the court stated that where the seller of a house knows the house has serious defects and fails to disclose the defects to…