Author: Ian Brown

  • Mitigation

    Mitigation in Contract Law According to Questions & Answers Law of Contract: Law Revision and Study Guide (Law Questions & Answers, Oxford University Press), by Adrian Chandler and Ian Brown, Mitigation may have the following meaning: name.1. Reduction in the severity of some penalty. Before […]

  • Frustration of Contract

    Frustration of Contract in Contract Law According to Questions & Answers Law of Contract: Law Revision and Study Guide (Law Questions & Answers, Oxford University Press), by Adrian Chandler and Ian Brown, Frustration of Contract may have the following meaning: The unforeseen termination of a […]

  • Quantum Meruit

    Quantum Meruit in Contract Law According to Questions & Answers Law of Contract: Law Revision and Study Guide (Law Questions & Answers, Oxford University Press), by Adrian Chandler and Ian Brown, Quantum Meruit may have the following meaning: see quasi-contract – n. A field of law covering […]

  • Innominate Terms

    Innominate Terms in Contract Law According to Questions & Answers Law of Contract: Law Revision and Study Guide (Law Questions & Answers, Oxford University Press), by Adrian Chandler and Ian Brown, Innominate Terms may have the following meaning: (intermediate terms) Terms of a contract that […]

  • Rescission

    Rescission in Contract Law According to Questions & Answers Law of Contract: Law Revision and Study Guide (Law Questions & Answers, Oxford University Press), by Adrian Chandler and Ian Brown, Rescission may have the following meaning: name. The setting aside of a voidable contract, which is […]

  • Consideration

    Definition of Consideration In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Consideration : An act, forbearance, or promise by one party to a contract that constitutes the price for which he buys the promise of the other. Consideration is essential to the validity of […]

  • Promissory Estoppel

    Promissory Estoppel in Contract Law According to Questions & Answers Law of Contract: Law Revision and Study Guide (Law Questions & Answers, Oxford University Press), by Adrian Chandler and Ian Brown, Promissory Estoppel may have the following meaning: see estoppel n. [from Norman French […]

  • Economic Duress

    Definition of Economic Duress In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Economic Duress : Historically within contract law, a claim that a contract was voidable for duress could only be successful if a threat to the person (i.e. physical duress) had induced the […]

  • Voidable Contract

    Voidable Contract in Contract Law According to Questions & Answers Law of Contract: Law Revision and Study Guide (Law Questions & Answers, Oxford University Press), by Adrian Chandler and Ian Brown, Voidable Contract may have the following meaning: A contract that, though valid when made, is […]

  • Void Contract

    Void Contract in Contract Law According to Questions & Answers Law of Contract: Law Revision and Study Guide (Law Questions & Answers, Oxford University Press), by Adrian Chandler and Ian Brown, Void Contract may have the following meaning: A contract that has no legal force from the moment of […]