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But I never thought it would come to this.... | But I never thought it would come to this.... | ||
There is some debate on whether the intention to create legal relations is a separate ingredient in a legally binding contract, or really just an evaluative description of what all the other ingredients (offer, acceptance and consideration) add up to. | There is some debate on whether the intention to create legal relations is a separate ingredient in a legally binding contract, or really just an evaluative description of what all the other ingredients ([[offer]], [[acceptance]] and [[consideration]]) add up to. | ||
There is some judicial authority that the intention to create legal relations is a separate thing, but dammit, that legal authority, however [[Doctrine of precedent|binding]] it might be, is wrong. As the maxim has it, ''[[anus matronae parvae malas leges faciunt]]''. | There is some judicial authority that the intention to create legal relations is a separate thing, but dammit, that legal authority, however [[Doctrine of precedent|binding]] it might be, is wrong. | ||
As the maxim has it, ''[[anus matronae parvae malas leges faciunt]]''. | |||
This is a [[Jolly contrarian|contrarian]] view, by the way. The clue is in the url. | |||
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