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  2. Implied terms in English law - Wikipedia

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    Like all terms implied by courts, customs can be excluded by express terms or if they are inconsistent with a contract's nature. [8] Lord Devlin in Kum v Wah Tat Bank Ltd. [9] summed up the policy of the law: Universality, as a requirement of custom, raises not a question of law but a question of fact.

  3. Implied-in-fact contract - Wikipedia

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    An implied-in-fact contract is a form of an implied contract formed by non-verbal conduct, rather than by explicit words. The United States Supreme Court has defined "an agreement 'implied in fact'" as "founded upon a meeting of minds, which, although not embodied in an express contract, is inferred, as a fact, from conduct of the parties showing, in the light of the surrounding circumstances ...

  4. Federal question jurisdiction - Wikipedia

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    Article III of the United States Constitution permits federal courts to hear such cases, so long as the United States Congress passes a statute to that effect. However, when Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1789, which authorized the newly created federal courts to hear such cases, it initially chose not to allow the lower federal courts to possess federal question jurisdiction for fear ...

  5. Contractual terms in English law - Wikipedia

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    These are terms that have been implied into standardised relationships. Common law. Liverpool City Council v Irwin [18] established a term to be implied into all contracts between tenant and landlord that the landlord is obliged to keep the common areas in a reasonable state of repair.

  6. Interpreting contracts in English law - Wikipedia

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    But before 1977, legislation to directly regulate unfair terms did not exist, [25] and jurisprudence on implied terms was underdeveloped. Even now, with one notable exception, [26] the courts have not accepted that they have any inherent jurisdiction to control unfair terms. It is only under legislation that authority appears to exist.

  7. Good faith (law) - Wikipedia

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    Courts may also recognise a duty to negotiate in good faith in situations involving a pre-existing relationship between the parties, particularly where the negotiation pertains to collateral terms in an otherwise complete contract, as well as in situations where parties to an oral contract have agreed to negotiate the terms to be recorded in a ...

  8. Case or Controversy Clause - Wikipedia

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    The Supreme Court of the United States has interpreted the Case or Controversy Clause of Article III of the United States Constitution (found in Art. III, Section 2, Clause 1) as embodying two distinct limitations on exercise of judicial review: a bar on the issuance of advisory opinions, and a requirement that parties must have standing.

  9. Judicial interpretation - Wikipedia

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    Judicial interpretation is the way in which the judiciary construes the law, particularly constitutional documents, legislation and frequently used vocabulary.This is an important issue in some common law jurisdictions such as the United States, Australia and Canada, because the supreme courts of those nations can overturn laws made by their legislatures via a process called judicial review.