Utmost good faith – unintended injustice?

Good Intentions and Unintended Evil

Relying on Adam Smith's concept of the "invisible hand," every economist can explain how markets react to individual economic power. Markets shape and reshape themselves to neutralize self-interested economic power by coaxing it into channels that serve the public good. But economists have devoted less attention to analyzing how markets systematically counteract coalitions of individuals' polit...

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...

function of good faith in contract law

good faith in a total categorization of the term, has classified to protective and obligatory. the obligatory aspect of good faith relates to contract law that implies correct behaviour, honesty and respect to others trust and interest. in this conception of the term, good faith implies action or disaction from the parties as a behavioural rule. the morality of the good faith denotes to the fac...

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