English law

Facts of this case: This is an English contract law decision, by the court of the appeal. The company (Carbolic smoke ball company) has produced carbolic smoke ball to advertise to cure influenza and other diseases. The company has advertised in the newspaper, which they have promised to pay £100 to any person who bonds with influenza after purchasing their smokeball. The company has deposited £1000 in the local bank which is called the Alliance Bank, in this way they can prove the seriousness…

transgender people, regarding the place of deception in the English law of rape. Deception has often been used by men saying or implying something which is untrue in order to have sexual intercourse with another person. If the person so deceived would not have had sexual relations with the deceiver but for the deception, one can wonder whether the deceiver did receive a valid consent for the said intercourse within the terms of the current law of rape. To answer this question, one must consider…

Requirements of a Legally Binding Contract under English Law Under English law, a legally binding agreement is a contract among two parties for prerequisites related to services or exchange of goods. A contract is intended to make legally bind so that further proceedings of courts could be executed in future if necessary. In this situation, the contract will be an enforceable contract, which is defined as a contract in which one party is legally obliged to perform their actions for other party…

but has had very little change. In old English law it was a strict liability offence, meaning even if someone did not know the age of the teenager, the teenager started, or even gave consent, they were held accountable (Obermen 25). Then more recently it became more of a law to protect morality than to punish offenders. Now the law is so vague, it does not do what it is needed to do, protect the innocent and punish the offenders. Therefore, statutory rape laws need to be more specific because,…

Policy that that prevented the use of England’s laws for the colonies in order to maintain the obedience from the colonies to England, contributed to the foundations of the British Colonists’ own government by giving the population the same rights as the British, through mercantilism, and through…

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 to a fair trial by jury. The document explicitly says, “to no one will we sell, to no one will we deny, or delay…

where there are (virtually or literally) no poor, no class struggles, no crimes, etc. More’s Utopia, as described through the recollection of the landless traveler/philosopher Raphael Hythloday, achieves these ends primarily through its commonplace “laws,” i.e., its distributed model of property. Jonathan Swift’s scathing satire “A Modest Proposal…” sardonically depicts a society where the solution to poverty and to the struggle of the poor lies in the resale and culinary value of the poor’s…

Common Law legal tradition, which is one of the four major families of law (Dammer and Albanese, 2014, p. 42). It should be noted that most legal traditions originated from the type of religion practiced in the region or country. Originally Common Law originated from when William the Conqueror captured England and became its King. He faced difficulty trying to rule his subjects as he was French, and due to some other anticipated obstacles when conquering a country. However, Common Law was…

religious laws that caused disputes and ignited the start of the English Civil War. Charles I often created new laws that were not passed through parliament and refused to take advice given by the members. During his rule he passed the ship money law during peacetime which angered many citizens. When Parliament disapproved of Charles I’s actions and, “…passed further measures displeasing to Charles, he dismissed Parliament”. The creation of this tax fortified his abuse of power because the…

has all of the power and authority to pass laws, taxes, and have control over all of the people in their realm. The English monarchy, however, was a limited monarchy that allowed the parliament to have consent to customs, laws, and taxes to be passed. This limited monarchy made the kings or queens have limited power over their kingdoms. Some kings even tried to dissolve the parliament that caused big conflict over the government of England. The English monarchy had rights that pertained to…