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{{a|contract|}}A Latinism I made up in December 2022, based on the more famous ''[[nemo iudex in causa sua]]'': “one cannot be one’s own agent”. The bleeding obvious, you would think, but you would be surprised how resourceful structurers hit upon interposing a ghostlike agency arrangement between to desks or divisions of the same legal entity to get around some accouting or regulatory inconvenience.
{{a|contract|}}A Latinism I made up in December 2022, based on the more famous ''[[nemo iudex in causa sua]]'': “one cannot be one’s own agent”. The bleeding obvious, you would think, but you would be surprised how resourceful structurers hit upon interposing a ghostlike agency arrangement between to desks or divisions of the same legal entity to get around some accouting or regulatory inconvenience.


An agent which represents itself has got a special name in legal parlance: a “principal”.
An agent which represents itself has got a special name in legal parlance: a “[[principal]]”.


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*[[Agency]]
*[[Agency]]
*[[Principal]]
*[[Principal]]

Latest revision as of 09:46, 2 December 2022

The basic principles of contract
Formation: capacity and authority · representation · misrepresentation · offer · acceptance · consideration · intention to create legal relations · agreement to agree · privity of contract oral vs written contract · principal · agent

Interpretation and change: governing law · mistake · implied term · amendment · assignment · novation
Performance: force majeure · promise · waiver · warranty · covenant · sovereign immunity · illegality · severability · good faith · commercially reasonable manner · commercial imperative · indemnity · guarantee
Breach: breach · repudiation · causation · remoteness of damage · direct loss · consequential loss · foreseeability · damages · contractual negligence · process agent
Remedies: damages · adequacy of damages ·equitable remedies · injunction · specific performance · limited recourse · rescission · estoppel · concurrent liability
Not contracts: Restitutionquasi-contractquasi-agency

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A Latinism I made up in December 2022, based on the more famous nemo iudex in causa sua: “one cannot be one’s own agent”. The bleeding obvious, you would think, but you would be surprised how resourceful structurers hit upon interposing a ghostlike agency arrangement between to desks or divisions of the same legal entity to get around some accouting or regulatory inconvenience.

An agent which represents itself has got a special name in legal parlance: a “principal”.

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