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Avoidance Of Personal Injury Release For Mutual Mistake Of Fact, Gerald Carlisle Jan 1958

Avoidance Of Personal Injury Release For Mutual Mistake Of Fact, Gerald Carlisle

Cleveland State Law Review

The instrument termed a release is a contract that clearly portrays a meeting of the minds. It explicitly states a release from liability for known, unknown, present, and future injuries. In attempting to avoid such a release the party ordinarily may allege the grounds he may have under the law of contracts. In personal injury releases, these grounds usually take the form of charges of fraud or misrepresentation, coercion, inequitable circumstances, mutual mistake of law, unilateral mistake of fact, inadequate consideration, or mutual mistake of fact. We shall deal here with the defense of mutual mistake.


Contracts For Religious Education Of Children, Jack F. Smith Jan 1958

Contracts For Religious Education Of Children, Jack F. Smith

Cleveland State Law Review

The courts of the United States almost uniformly hold that the parent having custody of a child or children can select the religious faith to be taught to the child or children, even though they may have previously promised to rear the child or children in a particular faith.