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- Getting Started on Commercial Contracts By: pete arkwright
Basic tips on entering into contracts in business
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- Investing In China: Tax Incentives By: David Carnes
The People’s Republic of China offers a variety of tax breaks and financial incentives to encourage inbound investment.
National government incentives vary based on how much money you are investing and whether or not your project is located in one of China’s special economic zones; local incentives vary by jurisdiction according to relative bargaining power. The tendency in recent years has been for China’s central and western provinces, who have been starved of foreign in...
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- Investing In China: Proposed Labor Contract Law By: David Carnes
If you are considering setting up a company in the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC”) you should be aware that Chinese law is more protective of employees than the laws of many western nations, particularly the United States. The current PRC Labor Law was enacted in 1994; however, a new PRC Labor Contract Law, intended to supplement the Labor Law, is expected to come into force at the end of 2006. This new law contains both bad news and good news from the point of view of...
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- When They Just Won't Get It Sorted, Call On The Lemon Law By: Charles Stubbs
The automobile lemon law is designed to protect consumers from irreparable manufacturer's defects in vehicles that should be covered by a car service contract. If you don't get satisfaction from the dealer then you can go to court, for free, to claim a replacement.
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- What Is Contract Law and Why Should I Hire A Contract Lawyer? By: Marcela De Vivo
Contract law is a branch of the legal sector that deals with the legal binding and exchange of agreements between group or parties; in effect, a contract. A contract can be many things: verbal, written, even action oriented.
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- An Overview of Contract Law By: William A. Markham
A contract is any legally-enforceable promise or set of promises made by one party to another and, as such, reflects the policies represented by freedom of contract. In the civil law, contracts are considered to be part of the general law of obligations. This article describes the law relating to contracts in common law jurisdictions.
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- You Need To Know: What Makes A Contract Legally Binding? By: Bob Miles
DISCLAIMER: The following is offered for your reference only and is not intended as legal advice. Contact your attorney before finalizing any contract.
A legal contract is a promise or set of promises that is enforceable under the law. In North America, the three most important aspects of a contract are offer, acceptance, and consideration.
“Offer” and “acceptance” seem pretty straightforward (although it’s trickier than you might think), but the term “consideration” fo...
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- You Have A Contract! Or Do You? Voidable Contracts By: Bob Miles
You have a contract, right? Well, maybe. But then again, maybe not. There are several ways to have a contract declared void (as if it never existed in the first place) or voidable (declared void at the option of the aggrieved party). These loopholes include (but are certainly not limited to), lack of legal intention, lack of legal capacity (a child, for example), lack of true consent (fraud, duress, etc.), and illegal object of the contract (a contract for prostitution, for e...
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- Contract Law Made Simple: Why Consequential Damages Are Dangerous And How To Avoid The Danger By: Bob Miles
For the sale of goods, the Uniform Commercial Code defines consequential damages as follows:
“Consequential damages resulting from the seller’s breach include
(a) any loss resulting from general or particular requirements and needs of which the seller at the time of contracting had reason to know and which could not reasonably be prevented by cover or otherwise; and
(b) injury to person or property proximately resulting from any breach of warranty.”
Keep in mind tha...
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- Efficient Breach – When You Should Breach Your Contract, And Why The Law Is Designed To Encourage Certain Kinds Of Breach By: Bob Miles
Breaching a contract is bad, bad, bad…isn’t it? Well, not always, at least not in the eyes of the law. The purpose of contract law is not to spank naughty promise-breakers, but to increase economic efficiency.
Suppose, for example, that you own some real estate. Buyer 1 wants to live in your house and offers you what you consider to be a good price for it, and you enter into a contract with Buyer 1 to sell it to him. Then Buyer 2 calls you. He wants to buy your real estate...
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- Real Estate Law In Plain English: What Is “Marketable Title”? By: Bob Miles
Marketable title (sometimes called “merchantable title”) is of much greater concern for the sale of real estate than with the same of personal property, mainly because of the complex and sometimes arcane rules applicable to real property. Property law recognizes a myriad of interests and procedures in real estate including easements, future interests, leaseholds, mortgages, and adverse possession, among others. For this reason it is quite likely that the interests in a given ...
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- Law And Law Firms In The Kindgom Of Thailand By: Wolfgang Jaegel
Thailand has a great number of law firms, each of them offering a host of services in almost all areas such as legal, tax, real estate, corporate, and back office works.
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- EU Hazard Ahead By: rebecca lim
In the next few months EU Ministers are expected to agree the regulations entitled Rome I. These regulations will govern the way contract law disputes are settled within the EU. If it is approved, Rome I will allow any court anywhere in the EU to decide which country's legal system should prevail in deciding an intra-EU civil case.
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- Lemon Law: Just Make Sure Your Lawyer Doesn't Leave You With a Sour Taste By: Charles Stubbs
Finding an honest lemon law lawyer is a tough challenge. To find a specialist attorney contact your state's attorney general's office. They have up-to-date information on honest, hardworking lemon law attorneys who can get the job done.
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- What Makes For a Quality Business Agreement - or a Contract? By: James Cochran
The contract is the foundation of doing business. Does that sound too formal to you? Is a handshake agreement good enough for many? Well, even though it may not be as air tight as, say, a contractor agreement, a handshake deal is still a contract.
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- What Happens When Someone is in Breach of a Legal Contract? By: James Cochran
Parties enter into a legal contract to have terms laid out as to the proper fulfillment of the contract. In other words, when people make a business deal, there's every expectation that both sides stick to their end of the bargain.
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- Breach of Contract Discussion, in its Laws, Remedy and Lawsuits By: Claysphere Rivera
Contract is a document that is sanctioned by law that contains a legally binding agreement between parties whether to do or not do something. Some source defined contract as something that involves an exchange of promises between two or more parties to do or refrain from doing an act, which is enforceable in a court of law.
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- Resolving Jurisdiction with Independent Contracts By: James Cochran
Many are under the inherent assumption that all contracts are the same, and that if its written down on paper, then the terms of the contract are clearly spelled out. Conversely, contracts arent simply about written terms, and represent a greater significance that should be taken seriously.
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- Facts on Breach of Employment Contract By: Jan Camille Canivel
A breach of employment contract occurs when the terms and conditions of the employment law, which includes working regulations that was agreed upon by an employer and employee is infringed or violated.
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