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What is it exactly that you do when you sign a 'contract' . The term 'contract' means a promise or a set of promises made by one man to another, which the Courts will enforce. A compact can consist of a whole of promises or 'terms' to be performed by either party. The man who makes the promise is called the 'promissor' and the man who can enforce that promise is called the 'promissee' . If the compact contains several mutual promises, each party will be both a promissor and a promissee. Contracts of buy and Sale of land and interests in land usually have lots of mutual promises. Contracts are a crucial part of every firm transaction, but not nearly as much as in Real Estate. For instance, some contracts are made verbally while others are made by plainly exchanging letters or even e-mails. This is not the case in Real Estate, where it is a requirement at Law that contracts be written down in usually lengthy legal forms to avoid uncertainty, ambiguity and to be binding .
A compact has seven necessary elements:
Offer.
Acceptance.
Consideration
Legal Intent.
Capacity.
Legal Object.
Genuine Consent.
Each of these elements must be present for a compact to be binding and enforceable. Let's witness them individually.
Offer
An offer is the promise made by one party to another. Save and except in Real Estate where the offer must be in writing, an offer can be made in any form. In all circumstances, however, an offer must be made in clear an unambigous terms. If more than one interpretation can be given to an offer, neither interpretation will be followed by the Courts. There are 'unilateral' and 'bilateral' offers. Offers to buy real property are bilateral, i.e. Containing the replacement of mutual promises.
An offer is not made forever. Offers can either be finalized, when all mutual promises are fulfilled. Or they can expire, if not timely accepted. Or they can be released, if one of the parties does not - or cannot - deliver on the promise. Offers can also be revoked after acceptance, unless a term of the offer stipulates that revocation is not allowed.- as it is now the case in British Columbia for offers thoughprovoking land. A 'counter-offer' is plainly an offer from the offeree back to the offeror. The legal ensue of a counter-offer is to end the customary offer and substitute the offer of the offeree. What this means in practicality is that if the counter-offer is not accepted, the offeree cannot try to accept the first offer unless it is tendered again by the offeror. This is a point often times neglected in Real Estate, which has caused several tears to be spilled.
Acceptance
The acceptance, like the offer, must be given in clear terms. It must be a unavoidable act. For instance, an offer cannot state "If I don't hear from you, I will assume you have accepted". Doing nothing will never be thought about legal acceptance. The rule at Law is that where an offer is required by statute to be in writing, then also the acceptance must be in writing in order for the offer to come to be a compact binding on both parties. Such is the case in Real Estate. An acceptance has no ensue until it is communicated to the offeror. Communication can be made by 'instantaneous means' as in the case of telephone or teletype or fax communications, or e-mail or hand-delivery and by 'non-instantaneous means' such as postal mail. The Law gives the responsibility to the offeror to specify how he wants the offer to be accepted. If the offeror chooses a formula like slow mail, then he assumes the risks complicated in that type of service (such as misdelivery).
Consideration
For an offer and acceptance to form a compact there must be observation or the compact must be signed under seal. observation is defined as 'some right, benefit or behalf accruing to the promissor or some forebearance, detriment, loss or otherwise responsibility suffered by the promissee' . What this means is that the party trying to enforce the compact must have 'paid' something in replacement for the promise of the other party. observation must be of real value, but it does not have to be money. For example, a mutual replacement of promises is observation per se.
Legal Intention
For a man to be bound to a contract, he must seriously intend to create legal obligations. For example, thoughprovoking a guest for evening meal would usually not be thought about a compact intended to create legal obligations. The Law presumes that there is legal intention in a compact thoughprovoking total strangers. On the other hand, if the compact is in the middle of family members the Law presumes that there is no intention to be so bound (non arm-length transaction). However, this presumption can be reversed if there is evidence to show otherwise.
Capacity
Even when all the foregoing necessary elements exist, a compact can still be void, voidable or illegal. A void compact is one which is deemed at Law never to have existed. A voidable compact is slightly different: it exists until it is repudiated by one of the parties. An illegal compact is one which is made for an illegal purpose, and which is therefore always void. Examples of voidable contracts are the ones made when one of the parties is an infant, i.e. A minor or under the majority age. In this case the compact can be voided by the infant. Likewise, when one of the parties is legally insane, the compact is voidable. A extra case is a compact stipulated when one of the parties is a miniature firm or corporation. Three questions must be first answered before the compact can be enforceable: 1) either the corporation does in fact exist and 2) either it has the capacity to enter into the compact and 3) either the man signing on behalf of the corporation is, in fact, the authorized signatory.
Legal Object
Quite aside from blatantly illegal contracts such as, for examples, contracts to commit a crime or tort until recently here in British Columbia unavoidable other types of contracts where thought about illegal. For example, until the mid-80's contracts thoughprovoking the sale of land made on a Sunday were deemed to be a contravention of s.4 of the Lord's Day Act(now repealed) and, thus, illegal and void. Since then, the consummate Court of Canada has ruled that the application of s.4 - in fact the whole Lord's Day Act - is unconstitutional in that it infringes on the relaxation of conscience and religion guaranteed by the Canadian lease of ownership and Freedom.
Genuine Consent
If one of the parties makes a misrepresentation or if the compact contains an potential mistake, the compact may still not be binding. A misrepresentation is, by definition, a statement which is false and which must have induced one of the parties to enter into the contract. A misrepresentation can be innocent, negligent or fraudulent and different remedies are ready to the party suffering damages because of the nature of the misrepresentation. If the representation is innocent, the party can sue for rescission of the contract. In the case of negligent or fraudulent misrepresentation, the affected party can sue for damages as well. Although misrepresentation requires a statement to be made, in Real Estate silence too can ensue in some form of misrepresentation. Disclosure of latent defects is one such example: failure to disclose latent defects on the part of the jobber will not, by itself, sway the consent of the parties but will have similar consequences as misrepresentation.
In the case of potential mistake, true consent of the parties does not exist. The logic behind this opinion is that the parties were negotiating for a field matter other than the one stipulated in the contract. A specific type of mistake is sometimes referred to as 'non est factum' , Latin for 'this is not my deed' . This occurs when a man executes one form of document reasoning the document is something else. Duress and undue sway both sway the genuine consent element of a contract. Duress occurs when a man is forced to enter into the compact against his will. As a result, the Courts will find the compact voidable at his option. Undue influence, on the other hand, is more subtle. Like duress it results in one party losing his free will to compact out. Any way it occurs more oftentimes when a man is in a superior or dominant position in relation to other and uses this influential position to induce the other to enter into the contract. Again, if undue sway is found, the compact is voidable at the selection of the innocent party.
Luigi Frascati
luigi@dccnet.com
http://www.luigifrascati.com
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