[PDF] Top 20 Chapter 1: Contracts and Commercial Law

... which held that a recipient of a fraudulent conveyance was liable for the value of the property received notwithstanding his payment of other creditors ofthe debtor [r] ... See full document

... resolve the issue of value determination in order for the adopted approach to become completely workable. In summary, after Poti Holding Co., a secured creditor who has failed to [r] ... See full document

... ined the effect of this rule upon an oral agreement for the payment of a brokerage fee in connection with a proposed real estate conveyance. Specifically, the MacGrego[r] ... See full document

... the question of whether a payee could recover on a postdated check which contained the drawer's endorsement stating that the face amount of the check should be paid from his[r] ... See full document

... when Loranger sent the subcontract agreement,25 The Court stated that the jury would have been warranted in finding both that Hauser- man invited acceptance in an[r] ... See full document

... surer's position. Though adopted here as a convenient locution, the reference to a "traditional approach" to untimely notice issues probably overstates the un[r] ... See full document

... contract with plaintiff restauranteur acting in bad faith when trading on restaurant name and logo developed by plaintiff); Kerrigan v. Massachusetts Bonding & [r] ... See full document

... important drafting caveats for the practioner. Wherever possible, sub- contracts should be drafted with specific reference to the provisions of the general contract [r] ... See full document

... Wine is consistent with the liberal recovery posture of the U.C.C. Measure of Damages--Breach of Contract to Purchase Real Es- tate.* The traditional measure of damages [r] ... See full document

... Islamic commercial law is omitted unless there is an im- mediate relevance to commercial ...Islamic commercial law, see generally, Berschadsky, ‘Innovative Financial Securities in the ... See full document

... After February 3, when the bank learned of the surety's claim, if the proceeds under the contracts had not been received and remained identifiable, the surety would[r] ... See full document

... The status of a subcontractor whose contract has become im- possible of performance because of the abandonment of the construc- tion project covered by the prime contr[r] ... See full document

... There is a danger, how- ever, that the Court, because of its language identifying the defendant's actions in the present case as tantamount to fraud, may have tended to[r] ... See full document

... Savings banks may now l have their deposits insured in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, commonly called the FDIC.. After the effective date of FDIC in- su[r] ... See full document

... lector and delivery man, Pfefferkorn signed a contract in which he agreed to keep secret any information concerning the employer's cus- tomers, to refrain from doin[r] ... See full document

... A bank still cannot invest more than 70 percent of its deposits in mortgage loans, except that in addition to the 70 percent, the bank is authorized to invest in FH[r] ... See full document

... services dealt with determining the validity of amendments to a trust instrument, the Supreme Judicial Court refused to declare the attorney's fee excessive where the [r] ... See full document

... 37 ld. 40 New England Tree Expert Co. 41 Novelty Bias Binding Co. Carroll: Chapter 7: Commercial Law.. 42 Although employee wrongdoing was apparent in the aforementioned thr[r] ... See full document

... A reading of the regulatory features of the statute would seem to indicate that there are six provisions that will be unenforceable if in- cluded in a retail instalm[r] ... See full document

... The definition of the value for which a holder must take a negotiable instrument in order to become a holder in due course was changed substantially by the Uniform Commercia[r] ... See full document