• Freedom of contract is the principle according to which individuals and groups may form contracts without government restrictions. This is opposed to...
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    with a high degree of freedom of contract. One example of the supposedly greater freedom of contract in American law, is the 1901 case of Hurley v. Eddingfield...
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  • The Rise and Fall of Freedom of Contract (1979) is a legal-historical text on the changes in the concept of freedom of contract by English Professor Patrick...
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  • the rule of law, property rights and freedom of contract, and characterized by external and internal openness of the markets, the protection of property...
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    of South Africa, contract law balances freedom of contract with public policy considerations, such as fairness and constitutional values. A contract in...
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    the name of "freedom of contract." But the freedom was all on the side of the big concern which had the use of the printing press. No freedom for the little...
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  • workers, as well as from legal principles such as freedom of contract, which sought to prevent passage of laws regulating workplace conditions. The National...
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  • Democracy: The God That Failed (category Criticism of democracy)
    larger, central government to a smaller, regional one" and "complete freedom of contract, occupation, trade and migration introduced". Hoppe characterizes...
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    Social contract arguments typically are that individuals have consented, either explicitly or tacitly, to surrender some of their freedoms and submit...
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  • Lochner v. New York (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government)
    prescribed maximum working hours for bakers violated the bakers' right to freedom of contract under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The decision...
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    standard form contract (sometimes referred to as a contract of adhesion, a leonine contract, a take-it-or-leave-it contract, or a boilerplate contract) is a contract...
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  • and prostitution, and is an exception to the general principle of freedom of contract. The doctrine can also refer to areas beyond national borders, such...
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  • among the Sunnis with respect to the freedom of persons to contract. However, the degree of freedom of contract is governed by the prohibitions in the...
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    strain of political thought that supports civil liberties and rights, or which emphasizes the supremacy of individual rights and personal freedoms over...
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  • West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Hughes Court)
    women is deprivation of freedom of contract. What is this freedom? The Constitution does not speak of freedom of contract. It speaks of liberty and prohibits...
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    failure of financial firms involves public interest considerations; and information asymmetry, which justifies curbs on freedom of contract in selected...
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  • Contractarianism Counter-economics Deontological libertarianism Freedom of contract Hans-Hermann Hoppe § Argumentation ethics Individualist anarchism...
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  • to most people. Moreover, freedom to contract was firmly suppressed among the peasantry. After the Black Death, the Statute of Labourers 1351 prevented...
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    involved renunciation of freedom and transformed the natural equality of men into subjection.: 77  Hence, the only legitimate social contract is one that establishes...
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    value of equality and freedom". Her columns highlighted success stories of blacks to illustrate broader themes about entrepreneurship, freedom and creativity...
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  • Freedom of association encompasses both an individual's right to join or leave groups voluntarily, the right of the group to take collective action to...
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    was the Freedom Party, is a party of the centre-right that tries to promote private enterprise and economic liberalism. In 1947, the Freedom Party led...
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  • Inequality of bargaining power is generally thought to undermine the freedom of contract, resulting in a disproportionate level of freedom between parties...
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  • is both necessary (freedom from contract) and sufficient (freedom to contract) to transfer alienable property rights. The right of restitution, which...
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  • Freedom of movement, mobility rights, or the right to travel is a human rights concept encompassing the right of individuals to travel from place to place...
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    utopia with maximum freedom in all things except politics." He has favored same-sex marriage, freedom of religion, and private use of drugs, and has written...
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    Kessler, 'Contracts of Adhesion – Some Thoughts About Freedom of Contract' (1943) 43(5) Columbia Law Review 629 R Pound, 'Liberty of Contract' (1909) 18...
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    kinds of property and freedom of contract as understood by the doctrine of laissez-faire are not basic; and so they are not protected by the priority of the...
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  • Termination for convenience (category Contract law)
    to complete the contract. Parties may agree to include a termination for convenience clause in a contract under the freedom of contract principle. However...
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  • holding in Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905), which protected freedom of contract. The previous decisions, he noted, addressed maximum hours. The present...
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