Nemo agens in causa sua

From The Jolly Contrarian
Revision as of 09:46, 2 December 2022 by Amwelladmin (talk | contribs)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
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

Index: Click to expand:
Tell me more
Sign up for our newsletter — or just get in touch: for ½ a weekly 🍺 you get to consult JC. Ask about it here.

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”.

See also