Good Faith and Mutual Understanding

good faith in iranian law

good faith is a flexible and subjective phrase. it is used in a variety of contexts and its meaning varies in these contexts. in ownership, possession in good faith means possession of property by a person who in good faith does not know that the property's ownership is disputed. possessor believes actually and reasonably himself or herself to be the lawful occupant, otherwise he is in bad...

Electronic Agents and Contract Performance: Good Faith and Fair Dealing

This paper examines how the civil law principle of good faith and the common law notion of fair dealing apply during the performance of contracts. After a brief look at their application in the precontractual stage, there is an examination of the notion of good faith and fair dealing in contract performance. Reference is made to the duty of the parties to act loyally and to co-operate during th...

Del Monte Dunes, Good Faith, and Land Use Regulation

The U.S. Supreme Court’s property rights jurisprudence always has had a Delphic quality. During this century, its seminal expressions have been Justice Holmes’ enigmatic “too far” language in Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon and Justice Brennan’s reliance on the amorphous conception of “investment-backed expectations” in Penn Central Transportation Co. v. City of New York. The Court’s 1999 decisi...

Law, Obligation, and a Good Faith Claim of Justice

Software Agents in Virtual Organizations: Good Faith and Trust

Virtual organizations tend to play an ever more part in electronic commerce, as well as software agents, here understood as the building blocks of the methodology for problem solving that is being subscribed. Indeed, one of the issues that have to be addressed is the capability of such entities to rationally and autonomously “think” and decide. The behavior of these agents may go more and more ...