Henry VI, Part 1

➤ With escalator clauses, the company requires the customer to pay today’s price and all or part of any inflation increase that occurs before delivery, based on some specified price index. Such clauses are found in many contracts involving industrial projects of long duration. ➤ With unbundling, the company maintains its price but removes or prices separately one or more elements that were part of the former offer, such as free delivery or installation. ➤ With reduction of…

Introduction “Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body” 1 Cardozo J in Schloendorff v Society of New York Hospital “It would be unrealistic to suppose the principle here affirmed will not over time be the subject of incremental and analogical development. At the very least this case shows that where justice and policy demand it a modification of causation principles is not beyond the wit of a modern court.…