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Coming Soon To Your State (But Not Ready For Prime Time): Ucita, James S. Heller
Coming Soon To Your State (But Not Ready For Prime Time): Ucita, James S. Heller
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Gap-Filling And Freedom Of Contract, Shumei Lu
Gap-Filling And Freedom Of Contract, Shumei Lu
LLM Theses and Essays
When a client asks his lawyer what his duties are under a particular contract, normally the lawyer’s first response is “show me the contract.” Does the contract provide all the contract duties in its expressed form? Definitely not. By now everyone acknowledges that, to some extent, all contracts have some gaps. Even the most carefully drafted document rests on volumes of assumptions that cannot be explicitly expressed.1 The inevitability of gaps reflects both our “relative ignorance of fact” and “our relative indeterminacy of aim.” Generally speaking, there are three types of gaps: first, the parties to a contract have not …