Mistake Under the Common European Sales Law

THE LAW GOVERNING SALES OF GooDs AT COMMON LAW AND UNDER THE UNIFORM SALES ACT

Common Mistake in Contract Law

English Contract Law has long struggled to understand the effect of a fundamental common mistake in contract formation. Bell v. Lever Brothers Ltd. [1932] A.C. 161 recognises that a common mistake which totally undermines a contract renders it void. Solle v. Butcher [1950] 1 K.B. 671 recognises a doctrine of ‘mistake in equity’ under which a serious common mistake in contract formation falling ...

following the common european criminal law

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The Protection of the Consumer Under Modern Sales Law

Costs and Benefits of an Optional European Sales Law (CESL)

This contribution assesses the proposed Common European Sales Law (CESL) and its potential to enter into a fruitful competition with national laws (“Optional Scheme”) against the background of a more general theory on vertical regulatory competition – drawing on the much richer theory of horizontal regulatory competition (namely concerned with Delaware). It does so along three lines of argument...