voidable contract

Take, for instance, the question: 'When will the right to avoid a voidable contract be lost?'

In meetings last week, the parties decided to eliminate any talk of a voidable contract, focusing instead on a standard pact.

A compromise on the issue of a voidable contract that is deemed workable to each side could be a solution to the negotiations.

A voidable contract, unlike a void contract, is a valid contract.

Ownership passes to the alleged thief under a voidable contract and remains with him until the contract is avoided by the innocent party.

Voidable contracts can be ratified.

It is an accurate statement of the difference of definition between void and voidable contracts, but it says nothing of their different effects.

R v Morris itself makes it plain that it is no defence to say that property passed under a voidable contract."

Under a voidable contract ownership passes to B in the normal way but will pass back to A if and when the contract is later avoided.

The commonest example of a voidable contract is one where a party has by making a mesrepresentation induced the other party to enter the contract.

Cancellation is in this way different from recission, which applies to voidable contracts ex tunc (from the beginning of the contract).

Therefore, s.5(4) applies to voidable contracts; that is, where the mistake is not so fundamental that the contract is void.

Void contracts are different from voidable contracts, which are contracts that may be (but not necessarily will be) nullified.

In every case, third parties involved with bad faith in void or voidable contracts not only are affected by nullity, but may also be liable for statutory damages.

The Florida Supreme Court's distinction between void and voidable contracts was, as Cantero had said, irrelevant under Prima Paint and Southland.

The remedy used to set aside a voidable contract is rescission coupled with restitution (known as restitutio in integrum), and is available as both an action and a defence.

The opinion distinguished void and voidable contracts, requiring that in the latter an arbitrator rule on all issues including the legality of the contract unless the arbitration clause was itself challenged.

There is some talk that a four-year deal may be agreeable to both sides but the Giants do not have a player with a voidable contract on their roster and never have had one.

As per Section 2(i), " An agreement which is enforceable by law at the option of one or more parties but not at the option of the other or others is a Voidable Contract."

I think this test is equally app]icable to the decision this court has to make whether a voidable contract has been affirmed or not and I have applied this test in reaching the conclusion I have just expressed.

There are cases of voidable contracts subsequently ratified, of debts barred by operation of law, subsequently revived, and of equitable and moral obligations, which, but for some rule of law, would of themselves have been sufficient to raise an implied promise.

It read Prima Paint to distinguish between void contracts that could never have legal standing, such as the one at issue, and voidable contracts where that result could come to pass later as a result of dispute resolution but where the contract was legal on its face.

The promise to pay a debt discharged by bankruptcy, the promise to perform a conditional responsibility despite the nonoccurrence of the condition, and the promise to perform on a voidable contract form a category of moral obligations that can bind in the absence of consideration.

The act of invalidating the contract by the party exercising its rights to annul the voidable contract is usually referred to either as voiding the contract (in the United States and Canada) or avoiding the contract (in the United Kingdom, Australia and other common law countries).