The reliance damages for depending upon the contract are considered as a type of damages arising from the breach of the contract, which are included within the common law remedies for the damage and loss suffered by the non-breaching party. It is worth-bearing in mind that the reliance damages are monetary in nature, and different from such equitable remedies as the specific performance and the injunction which are of real nature. It is to be noted that this piece of research is dedicated to study the concept of the reliance damages in the English law, as well as their states, the judicial doctrines upon which this type of damages is based, and the manner how the courts estimate them. Compared with situation of the Iraqi civil law No. (40) of 1951, which adopts the concept of the damages to compensate the loss suffered or sustained and the lost profit anticipated. It is to be noted also that the problem of the study lies in studying this type of damages, which is not regulated by the Iraqi civil law, particularly the pre-contractual reliance damages. and an attempt to suggest some relevant recommendations to the Iraqi legislator to treat the insufficiency due to the non-regulation of this type of damages. As well as suggesting a legal regulation to them.
The Gift is considered as a legal voluntary non-contractual transaction or disposition to transfer the granted property from the donor to donee gratuitously or without consideration. It is also worth-bearing in mind that the want of the requirement of consideration is the reason that the gift is not classified within the scope of the contract. And it is normally classified into two types: The inter vivos gift and gift causa mortis. It should also be noted that the donatio (or gift) inter vivos is applied to both the personal property or chattels and real property equally. As opposed to the gift causa mortis, which is applied to the personal property or chattels rather than the real property. Whereas both the Iraqi Civil Law N
... Show MoreThe Catering contract is considered as a type of hospitality contracts in the English common law of customary origins. Which is unwritten and based upon judicial precedents of the English courts. It is a complex contract of mixed nature، Is Regarded as a contract for the sale of meals of food and drink،, and is considered as a contract for supply of services concerning the preparation of food and drink، for providing them to the customer، as well as being a bailment contract. It is worth-bearing in mind that this contract is subject to the rules of three important English legislations: The Sale of Goods Act 1979، The Supply of Goods and Services 1982، The Consumer Protection Act 1987، and The Consumer Rights Act 2015. It is also w
... Show MoreThe occupier’s civil liability in English law is considered as one of the main types of the responsibility imposed by the law of Torts. and is regarded as a special system of the civil liability arising from negligence, as well as two other systems, that is to say , the employer’s non-contractual liability and The liability from defective products. It is worth-bearing in mind that the common law has imposed on the occupier of the premises a duty of safety towards those who enter his premises. And two English legislations have been enacted later to regulate this type of liability legislatively, namely, the Occupier's liability Act 1957 and the Occupier's liability Act 1984. Whereas the Iraqi civil law No. 40 of 1951 has regulate
... Show MoreQuasi-contract is considered as one of the well-established legal systems of the English Common law of customary origins, which is unwritten and based upon judicial precedents of the English courts. It is worth-bearing in mind that the legal basis of quasi-contract passed into two different stages: in the first stage the English judicature, supported by some juristic opinions regarded it as an implied Contract made by courts to prevent one party from being unjustly enriched at the expense of the other. Whereas in the second stage the English judicature considered it as an independent source of obligation، based upon the law of restitution. and having nothing to do with the law of contract. The Iraqi civil law No. (40) of 1951 regulated
... Show MoreThe Standard of reasonableness is considered as one of the objective standards adopted by the English Common law, to determine the standard of the care to be taken by the debtor of the obligation. And to ascertain the realization of the civil liability of negligence, the materialization of which requires four conditions. That is to say, the imposition of the duty of care to the defendant, the beach of the duty of care, the damage befalling the plaintiff, and the causation or causal link between the tort of negligence and the damage. It is also worth-bearing in mind that the forms of the Standard of reasonableness are variate in the English law to meet the different circumstances arising from the variation o
... Show MoreThe legal system of found property is considered as a reason or method of preliminary acquisition of ownership, as well as two other reasons, that is to say, the fixture of personal chattels, and the adverse possession, resting on the principles of equity, and included within the English common law of customary origins, which is unwritten and based upon judicial precedents of the English courts, equity and later legislations. It is worth-bearing in mind that the found property is the lost property on which the finder enjoys more rights than all other people, except its original owner. It is also worth-mentioning that the treasure trove is considered as found property in the English law. and it is any object at least 300 years old when fo
... Show MoreThe bailment is one of the well-established legal systems of the English common law, and which included the distinguished characteristics of both the law of contract and the law of property. It is worth-mentioning that this legal system has acquired those common features of these two prominent legal systems, which form an important part of the common law. By the judicial precedents made by English courts. And these precedents have adopted two different and divergent attitudes towards the qualification of the legal nature of bailment in English law . Whereas the Iraqi civil law No. (40) of 1951 regulated the legal rules of the bailment, considering it as a real contract, the conclusion of which requires the availability of four basic elem
... Show MoreThe contracts in restraint of trade are considered as void contracts according to the English common law, that is to say, they are prima facie void. Because their voidness is presumed and based upon a rebuttable presumption that these contracts are contrary to the public policy in principle. Owing to the unreasonableness of the Restraint of Trade conditions or terms in which they are included. But if it is proved that they satisfy the requirements of reasonableness, in accordance with the contracting parties, and both the temporal and spatial extent of their coming into effect, as well as the public interest. The court will validate them. It is also worth-bearing in mind that this type of contracts fall under contracts void at comm
... Show MoreThe dependency means the existence of a subordinate to whom a dependant is attached and extends his judgment to him, being and nothing, Dependency has elements that must be available to achieve the dependency relationship, which is the existence of dependent and master with a link join the first to the second, and dependency may be between two obligations, between two rights, or between two things, And we suggested the nature of the obligation as a criterion for verifying the existence of dependency , Which requires the subordinate's attachment to the master with a permanent fateful bond so that one of them does not separate from the other, for the existence of the follower is associated with the existence of the master and it does not e
... Show MoreUndue influence is considered as a vitiating factor or defect in English law. It is a dominating influence, with which the ascending party enjoys, and which enables him to exert an illegitimate pressure on the unduly influenced weaker party, in order to induce, or force him, to conclude a contract and enter into a transaction, against his will. It is also worth-bearing in mind that the doctrine of undue influence is an equitable one, originating from the rules of equity, applied by English courts of equity, and by which these courts set aside unconscionable bargains, in which one party is in a position to exploit the weakness of the other. It is also worth-mentioning that this doctrine has been included in the English common law. W
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