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I believe the tests are "business efficacy" (the term must be necessary to give the contract business effect; if the contract makes business sense without it, the courts will not imply a term), articulated in the great case of ''The Moorcock'' (1889) 14 PD 64, or the "officious bystander test" and it was articulated in the almost equally great case of ''Shirlaw v. Southern Foundries'' [1939] 2 KB 206.
I believe the tests are "business efficacy" (the term must be necessary to give the contract business effect; if the contract makes business sense without it, the courts will not imply a term), articulated in the great case of ''The Moorcock'' (1889) 14 PD 64, or the "officious bystander test" and it was articulated in the almost equally great case of ''Shirlaw v. Southern Foundries'' [1939] 2 KB 206.
{{box|if, while the parties were making their bargain, an officious bystander were to suggest some express provision for it in their agreement, they would testily suppress him with a common 'Oh, of course!'}}


==={{tag|Commercial reasonableness}}===
==={{tag|Commercial reasonableness}}===