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Contract language that limits one party's ability to pursue damages
Contract law
Formation
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Meeting of the minds2
Abstraction principle4,5
Posting rule1
Mirror image rule
Invitation to treat
Firm offer
Consideration1,4
Implication-in-fact
Collateral contract
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Force majeure
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Impossibility
Impracticability
Hardship
Set-off
Illusory promise1
Statute of frauds1
Non est factum1
Unclean hands1
Accord and satisfaction1
Exculpatory clause
Interpretation
Parol evidence3
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Integration clause
Contra proferentem
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Choice of law clause
Forum selection clause
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Remedies
Specific performance3
Money damages
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Rescission
Quasi-contractual obligations
Promissory estoppel1
Quantum meruit1
Unjust enrichment
Restitution
Negotiorum gestio2
Duties of parties
Duty of honest contractual performance (or doctrine of abuse of rights)6
Duty of good faith (also implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing or duty to negotiate in good faith)7
Contract A and Contract B in Canadian contract law6
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Notes
1 Specific to common law jurisdictions
2 Specific to civil and mixed law jurisdictions
3 Historically restricted in common law jurisdictions but generally accepted elsewhere; availability varies between contemporary common law jurisdictions
4 Specific to the German Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch and other civil codes based on the pandectist tradition
5 Explicitly rejected by the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts
6 Specific to Canadian contract law both in Québec and in the country's common law provinces
7 Specific to civil law jurisdictions, the American Uniform Commercial Code, and Canadian jurisprudence in both Québec and the common law provinces pertaining to contractual and pre-contractual negotiation
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Within a contract, an exculpatory clause is a statement that aims to prevent one party from holding the other party liable for damages.[1] An exculpatory clause is generally only enforceable if it does not conflict with existing public policy.[2] The two other prerequisites for an exculpatory clause to be valid are that the contract must pertain to the involved parties' private affairs, and each of the involved parties must be free bargaining agents to the contract in question such that there is no adhesion.[3]
^"exculpatory clause". law.cornell.edu. Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School. July 2021. Retrieved November 28, 2023.
^Sido, Kevin R. (2006). Architect and Engineer Liability: Claims Against Design Professionals. Aspen Publishers. p. 422. ISBN 9780735561038.
^Rapp, Geoffrey (2020). Tort Law in Focus. Wolters Kluwer. p. 405. ISBN 9781543807820.
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