"When a contractor has been guilty of inordinate delay occasioned by late mobilization, indolence, lack of seriousness, persistent shoddy work and in the same vein under a pretence that the...
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"A contract may be ex facie illegal or the illegality may depend on a combination of facts. In the former case, the illegality need not be specifically raised in the...
"If an innocent party has rendered services (or has supplied goods) under a contract, which has not been fully performed and which has been determined by him because of the...
"A legal practitioner should be able to present a bill of charges which, among other facts, should particularize his fees and charges, e.g. (a) perusing documents and giving professional advice;...
"In compensating a legal practitioner upon a quantum meruit for services he has actually rendered, it will be more realistic to make assessment on the basis of the particulars of...
"When there is a concluded binding contract, there is liability if it is terminated without justification. That would amount to a breach of the contract. There is, therefore, an implied...
"According to Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Edition at p. 323: 'The effect of the breach of a contract depends in a large degree upon whether it is to be regarded...
"Two elements are necessary to constitute a breach of agreement or promise of marriage. First, the party jilted must prove to the satisfaction of the court that there was in...
"Marriage is regarded as a very sacred institution both in our jurisprudence and in our sociology. Accordingly an agreement to enter into a marriage should leave nobody in doubt as...
"In matters of guarantee of this nature, there is sometimes the need to recognize the three parties, namely: the creditor, the principal debtor and the secondary debtor or guarantor. Either...
"An invitation to treat is not an offer that can be accepted to lead to an agreement or contract and therefore cannot form the basis of any cause of action."
"The borrower hereby expressly waives his rights to be given notice by the Bank under section 20 of the Conveyancing Act, 1881 or under any law or custom in operation...
