4. Consideration and estoppel

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-102
Author(s):  
Richard Taylor ◽  
Damian Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Third Party ◽  
Legal Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Key Points

Without assuming prior legal knowledge, books in the Directions series introduce and guide readers through key points of law and legal debate. Questions, diagrams and exercises help readers to engage fully with each subject and check their understanding as they progress. This chapter explains the nature of consideration with the aid of examples and discusses two basic definitions of consideration (consideration as a legal benefit or burden and as the price of a promise) as well as the past consideration rule. It addresses whether performance of an existing duty can count as a legal benefit or burden to form consideration for a promise. It considers existing public duties, existing duties owed to a third party and existing duties owed to the promisor. The chapter examines the related rules concerning part payment of a debt and the extent to which promises not supported by consideration can be enforced using promissory estoppel.

4. Consideration and estoppel

2021 ◽  
pp. 71-102
Author(s):  
Richard Taylor ◽  
Damian Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Third Party ◽  
Legal Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Key Points

Without assuming prior legal knowledge, books in the Directions series introduce and guide readers through key points of law and legal debate. Questions, diagrams and exercises help readers to engage fully with each subject and check their understanding as they progress. This chapter explains the nature of consideration with the aid of examples and discusses two basic definitions of consideration (consideration as a legal benefit or burden and as the price of a promise) as well as the past consideration rule. It addresses whether performance of an existing duty can count as a legal benefit or burden to form consideration for a promise. It considers existing public duties, existing duties owed to a third party and existing duties owed to the promisor. The chapter examines the related rules concerning part payment of a debt and the extent to which promises not supported by consideration can be enforced using promissory estoppel.

4. Consideration and estoppel

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Taylor ◽  
Damian Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Third Party ◽  
Legal Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Key Points

Without assuming prior legal knowledge, books in the Directions series introduce and guide readers through key points of law and legal debate. Questions, diagrams and exercises help readers to engage fully with each subject and check their understanding as they progress. This chapter explains the nature of consideration with the aid of examples and discusses two basic definitions of consideration (consideration as a legal benefit or burden and as the price of a promise) as well as the past consideration rule. It addresses whether performance of an existing duty can count as a legal benefit or burden to form consideration for a promise. It considers existing public duties; existing duties owed to a third party; and existing duties owed to the promisor. The chapter examines the related rules concerning part payment of a debt and the extent to which promises not supported by consideration can be enforced using promissory estoppel.

13. Privity and the interests of third parties

2021 ◽  
pp. 345-364
Author(s):  
Richard Taylor ◽  
Damian Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Third Parties ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Legal Knowledge ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Specific Performance

Without assuming prior legal knowledge, books in the Directions series introduce and guide readers through key points of law and legal debate. Questions, diagrams and exercises help readers to engage fully with each subject and check their understanding as they progress. This chapter examines the privity rule, which states that only a party to the contract can sue upon it. It discusses the development of the privity rule, distinguishing the privity rule from the consideration rule, evading the privity rule, techniques for giving a right directly to a third party or apparent third party, specific performance in favour of a third party and damages for a third party’s loss, and the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

13. Privity and the interests of third parties

2019 ◽  
pp. 342-361
Author(s):  
Richard Taylor ◽  
Damian Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Third Parties ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Legal Knowledge ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Specific Performance

Without assuming prior legal knowledge, books in the Directions series introduce and guide readers through key points of law and legal debate. Questions, diagrams and exercises help readers to engage fully with each subject and check their understanding as they progress. This chapter examines the privity rule, which states that only a party to the contract can sue upon it. It discusses the development of the privity rule, distinguishing the privity rule from the consideration rule, evading the privity rule, techniques for giving a right directly to a third party or apparent third party, specific performance in favour of a third party and damages for a third party’s loss, and the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

13. Privity and the interests of third parties

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Taylor ◽  
Damian Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Third Parties ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Legal Knowledge ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Specific Performance

Without assuming prior legal knowledge, books in the Directions series introduce and guide readers through key points of law and legal debate. Questions, diagrams and exercises help readers to engage fully with each subject and check their understanding as they progress. This chapter examines the privity rule, which states that only a party to the contract can sue upon it. It discusses the development of the privity rule; distinguishing the privity rule from the consideration rule; evading the privity rule; techniques for giving a right directly to a third party or apparent third party; specific performance in favour of a third party and damages for a third party’s loss and the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

9. Duress, undue influence and unconscionable bargains

2021 ◽  
pp. 234-260
Author(s):  
Richard Taylor ◽  
Damian Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Third Party ◽  
Legal Knowledge ◽  
Undue Influence ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The One

Without assuming prior legal knowledge, books in the Directions series introduce and guide readers through key points of law and legal debate. Questions, diagrams and exercises help readers to engage fully with each subject and check their understanding as they progress. This chapter focuses on the principles applicable where a contract is entered into after there have been threats or improper influence brought to bear on one party or where the one-sided nature of the contract suggests that one party has been taken advantage of. The discussions cover duress (duress and pressure, threats against the person, threats against goods and economic duress); undue influence (actual undue influence, presumed undue influence and third-party cases); and unfairness and unconscionable bargains.

9. Duress, undue influence and unconscionable bargains

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Taylor ◽  
Damian Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Third Party ◽  
Legal Knowledge ◽  
Undue Influence ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The One

Without assuming prior legal knowledge, books in the Directions series introduce and guide readers through key points of law and legal debate. Questions, diagrams and exercises help readers to engage fully with each subject and check their understanding as they progress. This chapter focuses on the principles applicable where a contract is entered into after there have been threats or improper influence brought to bear on one party or where the one-sided nature of the contract suggests that one party has been taken advantage of. The discussions cover duress (duress and pressure, threats against the person, threats against goods and economic duress); undue influence (actual undue influence, presumed undue influence and third-party cases); and unfairness and unconscionable bargains.

9. Duress, undue influence and unconscionable bargains

2019 ◽  
pp. 232-258
Author(s):  
Richard Taylor ◽  
Damian Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Third Party ◽  
Legal Knowledge ◽  
Undue Influence ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The One

Without assuming prior legal knowledge, books in the Directions series introduce and guide readers through key points of law and legal debate. Questions, diagrams and exercises help readers to engage fully with each subject and check their understanding as they progress. This chapter focuses on the principles applicable where a contract is entered into after there have been threats or improper influence brought to bear on one party or where the one-sided nature of the contract suggests that one party has been taken advantage of. The discussions cover duress (duress and pressure, threats against the person, threats against goods and economic duress); undue influence (actual undue influence, presumed undue influence and third-party cases); and unfairness and unconscionable bargains.

A Macintosh Interface for the Cameca Camebax-Micro Electron Microprobe

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 438-439
Author(s):  
Carl E. Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microprobe ◽  
Processing Speed ◽  
Word Processing ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Computer Control ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Disk Storage ◽  
The Past ◽  
User Facility ◽  
Instrument Control

Over the past few years it has become apparent in our multi-user facility that the computer system and software supplied in 1985 with our CAMECA CAMEBAX-MICRO electron microprobe analyzer has the greatest potential for improvement and updating of any component of the instrument. While the standard CAMECA software running on a DEC PDP-11/23+ computer under the RSX-11M operating system can perform almost any task required of the instrument, the commands are not always intuitive and can be difficult to remember for the casual user (of which our laboratory has many). Given the widespread and growing use of other microcomputers (such as PC’s and Macintoshes) by users of the microprobe, the PDP has become the “oddball” and has also fallen behind the state-of-the-art in terms of processing speed and disk storage capabilities. Upgrade paths within products available from DEC are considered to be too expensive for the benefits received. After using a Macintosh for other tasks in the laboratory, such as instrument use and billing records, word processing, and graphics display, its unique and “friendly” user interface suggested an easier-to-use system for computer control of the electron microprobe automation. Specifically a Macintosh IIx was chosen for its capacity for third-party add-on cards used in instrument control.

Between Jerusalem and Athens

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurit Yaari
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Cultural Events ◽  
Greek Drama ◽  
The Past ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
Dramatic Writing ◽  
Artistic Performance

How does a theatrical tradition emerge in the fields of dramatic writing and artistic performance? Can a culture, in which theatre played no part in the past, create a theatrical tradition in real time—and how? What was the contribution of classical Greek drama to the evolution of Israeli theatre? How do political and social conditions affect the encounter between cultures—and what role do they play in creating a theatre with a distinctive identity? This book, the first of its kind, attempts to answer these and other questions, by examining the reception of classical Greek drama in the Israeli theatre over the last seventy years. It deals with dramatic and aesthetic issues while analysing translations, adaptations, new writing, mise-en-scène, and ‘post dramatic’ performances of classical Greek drama that were created and staged at key points of the development of Israeli culture amidst fateful political, social, and cultural events in the country’s history.

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