Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Freedom of contract is the principle according to which individuals and groups may form contracts without government restrictions. This is opposed to government regulations such as minimum-wage laws , competition laws , economic sanctions , restrictions on price fixing , or restrictions on contracting with undocumented workers .
The Army Corps of Engineers signed a contract with G.L. Christian and Associates to build 2,000 housing units for soldiers at Fort Polk, Louisiana, under the "Capehart Act". Fort Polk was deactivated by the Department of the Army in 1958, and the $32.9 million construction contract was terminated by the Corps of Engineers on February 5, 1958 ...
1 Introduction; Part I The Beginnings of Freedom of Contract: The Story to 1770. 2 The Condition of England in 1770; 3 The Intellectual Background in 1770–I; 4 The Intellectual Background in 1770–II; 5 The Legal Background in 1770; 6 Contract Law and Theory in 1770–I; 7 Contract Law and Theory in 1770–II; Part II The Age of Freedom of ...
Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court holding that a New York State statute that prescribed maximum working hours for bakers violated the bakers' right to freedom of contract under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. [1] The decision has since been effectively overturned. [2 ...
Original file (1,262 × 1,650 pixels, file size: 7.17 MB, MIME type: application/pdf, 157 pages) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
Contra proferentem (Latin: "against [the] offeror"), [1] also known as "interpretation against the draftsman", is a doctrine of contractual interpretation providing that, where a promise, agreement or term is ambiguous, the preferred meaning should be the one that works against the interests of the party who provided the wording.
Johnson received 1% of the popular vote, amounting to more than 1.2 million votes. [ 243 ] [ 244 ] Johnson has expressed a desire to win at least 5 percent of the vote so that the Libertarian Party candidates could get equal ballot access and federal funding , thus subsequently ending the two-party system .
Now, it was said on the part of the Defendant, that such a contract as that which I have mentioned, a contract by which an inventor agrees to sell what he may invent, or acquire a patent for before he has invented it, is against public policy, and it was said to be against public policy, because it would discourage inventions; that if a man ...