Mutual assent in contracting is one of the most important ways we exercise this ability.

There has been no mutual assent, in other words, but public policy essentially requires a remedy.

In order for a contract to be formed, the parties must reach mutual assent (also called a meeting of the minds).

Mutual assent to its terms is of its very essence."

The elements of a contract are mutual assent, consideration, legally competent parties and legal purpose.

This represents not a mutual mistake but a failure of mutual assent.

A contract can be made without an identifiable offer and acceptance, provided the parties have manifested their mutual assent.

His selection was by mutual assent.

This is easily confused with mutual assent cases such as Raffles v Wichelhaus.

In this situation, no contract has been formed, since mutual assent is required in the formation stage of contract.

"Mutual assent is the mechanism.

Courts frown on this type of contract because there is really no manifestation of mutual assent "meeting of the minds" or agreement to the terms.

Mutual assent is also known as ratification and meeting of the minds is typically established through the process of offer and acceptance.

Mutual assent or meeting of the minds is destroyed by such actions as fraud, undue influence, duress (see per minas), mutual mistake, or misrepresentation.

There were lulls in the fighting, when, as though by mutual assent, both sides desisted for brief intervals of rest, for we had fought to the limit of endurance.

In Contract law, Blackstone used per minas to describe the defense of duress, as affecting the element of Contract intent, Mutual assent, or Meeting of the minds.

Alarmed by high rates of teenage pregnancy in the African-American community, Mr. Cox, 52, figured "mutual assent" pregnancy agreements established during the first trimester could help with care and custody issues.

Meeting of the minds (also referred to as mutual agreement, mutual assent or consensus ad idem) is a phrase in contract law used to describe the intentions of the parties forming the contract.

Because offer and acceptance are necessarily intertwined, in California, offer and acceptance are analyzed together as subelements of a single element, known either as consent of the parties or mutual assent.

Scienter is also an element of the contract law breach of contract cause of action, wherein the aggrieved party alleges some destruction of the meeting of the minds, also known as mutual assent, due to fraud, misrepresentation or duress per minas.

Macneil further argues that even objective consent turned out to be too vague a concept to achieve the goal of total presentiation through the principle of mutual assent, so that which did not fit the test of objective consent were cast out of the scheme of contract altogether and relegated to quasi-contract and tort.

Rather, when someone is threatened and agrees to act to avoid physical harm by the party making the offer, all you truly have is a mirror of the other party's manifestation of mutual assent not the manifestation of mutual assent by the party being forced or induced to assent to the terms of the contract.