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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Right-to-work law (redirect from Freedom to work)
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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Rose Wilder Lane (redirect from The Discovery of Freedom)
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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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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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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Financial regulation (section Aims of regulation)
failure of financial firms involves public interest considerations; and information asymmetry, which justifies curbs on freedom of contract in selected...
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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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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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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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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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David D. Friedman (category American people of Austrian-Jewish descent)
and the libertarian theory of anarcho-capitalism, which is the subject of his most popular book, The Machinery of Freedom. Described by Walter Block as...
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Curtis Yarvin (category Place of birth missing (living people))
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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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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Printing and Numerical Registering Co v Sampson (category Court of Appeal (England and Wales) cases)
Eq 462 is an English contract law and patent case. It is most notable for strong advocacy of the principle of freedom of contract put forward by Sir George...
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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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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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Decentralization (redirect from Decentralization of the economy)
using freedom. And from the accumulation of these local, active, persnickety freedoms, is born the most efficient counterweight against the claims of the...
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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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Hans-Hermann Hoppe (redirect from The Economics and Ethics of Private Property)
and remedies, including secession, decentralization of government, and "complete freedom of contract, occupation, trade and migration". Hoppe argues that...
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Self-ownership (redirect from Sovereignty of the individual)
(1995). Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality. Cambridge University Press. Ellerman, David P. (1992). Property and Contract in Economics: The Case for...
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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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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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Walter Block (category Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni)
"inalienability" of natural and legal rights, Block defends what he calls a "voluntary slave contract", arguing that it is "a bona fide contract where consideration...
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Adkins v. Children's Hospital (redirect from Adkins v. Children's Hospital of D. C.)
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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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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