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Lottery Approach To Promotional Schemes, Anon
Lottery Approach To Promotional Schemes, Anon
Washington Law Review
Plaintiff, assignee of a conditional sales contract for the purchase of a home fire alarm system, sued defendant-purchaser upon default. The assignor-seller had obtained the contract using a referral sales scheme as an inducement, and plaintiff knew of the scheme at the time of assignment. The scheme included a Representative's Commission Agreement in which seller promised to pay purchaser one hundred dollars for each sale made to purchaser's sixty referrals. In addition, seller promised five Bonus Presentation Guarantees of 200 dollars, each payable when seller had contacted fifteen of purchaser's referrals. Seller represented that the referral plan would pay for …
Problems Of Performance Of Sales Contracts Under Japanese And American Law, Katsuro Kanzaki, William C. Jones
Problems Of Performance Of Sales Contracts Under Japanese And American Law, Katsuro Kanzaki, William C. Jones
Washington Law Review
This article will discuss the problem of performance of contracts for the sale of goods (personal property) under American and Japanese law. The discussion of American law will be limited almost entirely to the Uniform Commercial Code. Excluded from this discussion are risk of loss, impossibility and frustration, and products liability; these topics are treated elsewhere in this symposium.
Problems Of Performance Of Sales Contracts Under Japanese And American Law, Katsuro Kanzaki, William C. Jones
Problems Of Performance Of Sales Contracts Under Japanese And American Law, Katsuro Kanzaki, William C. Jones
Washington Law Review
This article will discuss the problem of performance of contracts for the sale of goods (personal property) under American and Japanese law. The discussion of American law will be limited almost entirely to the Uniform Commercial Code. Excluded from this discussion are risk of loss, impossibility and frustration, and products liability; these topics are treated elsewhere in this symposium.
Formation Of Contracts For The Sale Of Goods, Calvin W. Corman
Formation Of Contracts For The Sale Of Goods, Calvin W. Corman
Washington Law Review
All advanced legal systems, and all bodies concerned with governing international trade transactions, are today struggling with the problems connected with the need to develop acceptable legal rules for contract formation, particularly involving the sale of goods. This article will set forth some of the problems that are inherent in contract formation, and will describe and compare some of the solutions offered (1) by the civil law systems, especially as seen in Japan, Germany, and France; (2) by the common law systems, especially as expressed both in the developing Second Restatement of Contracts and in the Uniform Commercial Code Article …
Impossibility And Frustration In Sales Contracts, Kiyoshi Igarashi, Luvern V. Rieke
Impossibility And Frustration In Sales Contracts, Kiyoshi Igarashi, Luvern V. Rieke
Washington Law Review
Legal principles governing sales under Japanese law, a civil rather than common law system, are at some significant points different from the law of the United States. The treatment accorded problems in the two countries involving "impossibility" of performance and "frustration of purpose" present good examples of the differences. Indeed the latter doctrine, "frustration" in the sense of the well-known Coronation cases, may not have a genuine counterpart in the law of Japan. Historically the differentiation between impossibility and frustration has been difficult enough in the common law, as casual reading of the examples used by Judge Williams in Krell …
Risk Of Loss In Japanese Sales Transactions, Hisashi Tanikawa
Risk Of Loss In Japanese Sales Transactions, Hisashi Tanikawa
Washington Law Review
The problems of risk of loss are defined somewhat more broadly in Japan than in the United States. The American lawyer looks at risk of loss as the problem of determining who shall bear the financial burden when some physical object is damaged or destroyed. While making this determination is also a risk of loss problem in Japan, the Japanese lawyer characterizes additional problems as being within the scope of risk of loss. In Japan risk of loss is an inherent problem in all bilateral contracts, not merely contracts involving the transfer of goods. This is because the common law …
Arbitration Clauses And Fraudulent Inducement, Anon
Arbitration Clauses And Fraudulent Inducement, Anon
Washington Law Review
Plaintiff and defendant entered into a contract containing a provision that "any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement... shall be settled by arbitration." A dispute arose and defendant demanded arbitration. Plaintiff brought an action in federal district court to rescind the contract on the ground of fraudulent inducement, moving to stay arbitration. Defendant cross-moved to stay trial pending arbitration. The district court granted defendant's motion and denied plaintiff's. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed. Held: Unless there is an allegation that the arbitration provision itself was fraudulently induced, an issue of fraudulent inducement of …
Lottery Approach To Promotional Schemes, Anon
Lottery Approach To Promotional Schemes, Anon
Washington Law Review
Plaintiff, assignee of a conditional sales contract for the purchase of a home fire alarm system, sued defendant-purchaser upon default. The assignor-seller had obtained the contract using a referral sales scheme as an inducement, and plaintiff knew of the scheme at the time of assignment. The scheme included a Representative's Commission Agreement in which seller promised to pay purchaser one hundred dollars for each sale made to purchaser's sixty referrals. In addition, seller promised five Bonus Presentation Guarantees of 200 dollars, each payable when seller had contacted fifteen of purchaser's referrals. Seller represented that the referral plan would pay for …
Formation Of Contracts For The Sale Of Goods, Calvin W. Corman
Formation Of Contracts For The Sale Of Goods, Calvin W. Corman
Washington Law Review
All advanced legal systems, and all bodies concerned with governing international trade transactions, are today struggling with the problems connected with the need to develop acceptable legal rules for contract formation, particularly involving the sale of goods. This article will set forth some of the problems that are inherent in contract formation, and will describe and compare some of the solutions offered (1) by the civil law systems, especially as seen in Japan, Germany, and France; (2) by the common law systems, especially as expressed both in the developing Second Restatement of Contracts and in the Uniform Commercial Code Article …
Impossibility And Frustration In Sales Contracts, Kiyoshi Igarashi, Luvern V. Rieke
Impossibility And Frustration In Sales Contracts, Kiyoshi Igarashi, Luvern V. Rieke
Washington Law Review
Legal principles governing sales under Japanese law, a civil rather than common law system, are at some significant points different from the law of the United States. The treatment accorded problems in the two countries involving "impossibility" of performance and "frustration of purpose" present good examples of the differences. Indeed the latter doctrine, "frustration" in the sense of the well-known Coronation cases, may not have a genuine counterpart in the law of Japan. Historically the differentiation between impossibility and frustration has been difficult enough in the common law, as casual reading of the examples used by Judge Williams in Krell …
Risk Of Loss In Japanese Sales Transactions, Hisashi Tanikawa
Risk Of Loss In Japanese Sales Transactions, Hisashi Tanikawa
Washington Law Review
The problems of risk of loss are defined somewhat more broadly in Japan than in the United States. The American lawyer looks at risk of loss as the problem of determining who shall bear the financial burden when some physical object is damaged or destroyed. While making this determination is also a risk of loss problem in Japan, the Japanese lawyer characterizes additional problems as being within the scope of risk of loss. In Japan risk of loss is an inherent problem in all bilateral contracts, not merely contracts involving the transfer of goods. This is because the common law …
Arbitration Clauses And Fraudulent Inducement, Anon
Arbitration Clauses And Fraudulent Inducement, Anon
Washington Law Review
Plaintiff and defendant entered into a contract containing a provision that "any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement... shall be settled by arbitration." A dispute arose and defendant demanded arbitration. Plaintiff brought an action in federal district court to rescind the contract on the ground of fraudulent inducement, moving to stay arbitration. Defendant cross-moved to stay trial pending arbitration. The district court granted defendant's motion and denied plaintiff's. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed. Held: Unless there is an allegation that the arbitration provision itself was fraudulently induced, an issue of fraudulent inducement of …