Aspects of Contract and Negligence Assignment
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Aspects of Contract and Negligence Assignment
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ASPECTS OF CONTRACTAND NEGLIGENCE ACT
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1Task 1 ..............................................................................................................................................11.1 elements required for the formation of a valid contract........................................................11.2 Impact of different type of contract......................................................................................21.3 Different forms of contractual terms. ...................................................................................32.1 The elements of contract in given.........................................................................................3business scenarios......................................................................................................................32.2 Apply the law on terms in different......................................................................................4contracts.....................................................................................................................................42.3 Effect of different terms in given contracts...........................................................................5Task 2...............................................................................................................................................53.1. Difference between liability in tort with contractual liability..............................................53.2 nature of liability in negligence and employers’ liability.....................................................63.3 Can Roger bring a claim in vicarious liability against Ben for Colin’s actions. Does Rogersue Colin?....................................................................................................................................73.4 Apply the elements of tort of negligence, vicarious liability and defenses in thesesituations.....................................................................................................................................7Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8References........................................................................................................................................9
INTRODUCTION A contract is an agreement between two or more parties or entities in order to shareanything (Twomey and Jennings, 2010). A contract is valid on only both the elements areavailable (i.e. offer and acceptance). Therefore, “all contracts can be an agreement but allagreements cannot be contract (Robbennolt and Valerie, 2016)”. The following report interpretsabout the various elements required for the formation of the valid contract. In this report differenttypes of contract are discussed in order to solve the various cases given. In this different types ofliabilities (i.e. liability in tort, contractual liability and vicariously liability) are discussed alongwith its elements. Task 11.1 Elements required for the formation of a valid contract.ElementFeature/Meaning Related CaseOfferAn offer is the act of offeringsomething to another person. Ifthe offer is accepted then theofferor is bound by a contract(Robbennolt and Valerie,2016).Hyde v Wrench, [1840] 3Bea334; 49 ER 132.1 According to the case Wrenchmade an offer to the Hyde forthe sell of property for £1200which Hyde refuses. Afterwardat the time of acceptance Hydeoffer the Wrench to sell itsproperty to him for £950.Therefore, offer was there butno acceptance.AcceptanceAn acceptance is the act ofaccepting the offer made byanother person. Acceptancecan be in the form of oral orwritten (Uddin, 2015). Felthouse v Bindley [1862]EWHC CP j35 Court ofCommon Pleas.According to the there was novalid contract because silencecannot be treated as a contract.A nephew simply offers the1
uncle to sell his horse to her towhich uncle does not reply.But at the same the horse wassold out in the auction. Intention to create legalrelations.In order to create a validcontract there must beintention among the parties tocreate legal obligations(Morgan, 2015). Errington v Errington Woods[1952] 1 KB 290 Court ofAppeal.According to the case father-in-law purchased a house onmortgage and he gifted thesame to his son and daughter-in-law say that if they paid theinstallment he will hand overthe house paper to them. Butbefore that only father-in-lawdied. After which motherinherited the house and refusehis daughter-in-law to live inthe house. But the daughtercontinued to live. 1.2 Impact of different type of contractUnilateral contract:- A unilateral contract are the contract in which only one party isobliged to perform the act and another party is completely free to decide whether it should followthe act or not (MacMillan and Stone, 2012).Case-Carlil v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company 1893. According to this case companyadvertise in the newspaper that whoever catches the flu by taking the medicine will be reward. Inlieu of which Carlil catch the flu but the company refuses to pay the reward amount.Impact- Unilateral contracts can be canceled at any time even before the completion of thecontract. But it can be canceled when the acceptor of the contract has started performing it(Robbennolt and Valerie, 2016). 2
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