have been used to protect consumers for centuries. These laws have been designed in a variety of legal forms, including criminal law, tort, contract, intellectual property, etc. In addition to those laws that specify consumer protection and product liability as their primary concern, numerous other provisions have the effect of protecting the consumer, for example by streamlining the prosecution of fraud, protecting property or facilitating litigation. This study will examine the critically assess
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Assignment on: Islamic Banking Submitted to: Md. Alamgir Hossen Assistant Professor IBA – JU Submitted by: Tanjim Mahmud 21st Batch ClassID – 1564 Institute of Business Administration Date of submission: 14/05/2014 Islamic banking is banking based on Islamic law (Shariah). It follows the Shariah, called fiqh muamalat (Islamic rules on transactions). The rules and practices of fiqh muamalat came from the Quran and the Sunnah, and other secondary sources of Islamic law such as opinions
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TYING CONTRACTS Tying is the practice of selling one product or service as a mandatory addition to the purchase of a different product or service. In legal terms, a tying sale makes the sale of one good (the tying good) to the de facto customer conditional on the purchase of a second distinctive good (the tied good). Tying is often illegal when the products are not naturally related. It is related to but distinct from freebie marketing, a common (and legal) method of giving away (or selling
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The American Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS) is an organization, which helps enable American students to travel abroad. The main service AIFS provides entails organizing educational and cultural exchange problems across the globe. As the case explains, AIFS has split their business into two major divisions that that serve American student’s studying abroad; the Study Abroad College division and the High School Travel division. The college division, which is controlled by Christopher Archer-Lock
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of $9,000 which was recorded as revenue when it was received on December 13. Barbor was not billed until January 2. The order was not shipped until after the year end on January 2. The remaining balance owing was recorded in accounts receivable and sales. The inventory was excluded from the ending inventory count as well. The issue is whether this is the appropriate time to record the revenue or if another time is more appropriate. The other issue is that the balance owing is not a receivable until
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2001) The world’s largest network equipment maker shocked investors when it warned them they would soon be scrapping $2.5 billion of raw surplus (almost 50% of quarterly sales) - which is one of the largest inventory write-offs in US history. How could Cisco misread demand by $2.5 billion, almost half as much as its sales in the quarter? Many experts believed it was due to forecasting errors, or forecasting software problems, or even mismanagement from top executives But were
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Question 1 Paul Price is clearly concerned about the Tefal Actifry. Explain to Paul Price about his rights regarding the Sale of Goods Act 1979 (amended). In your answer you are required to refer to the relevant sections of the Sale of Goods Act (SOGA) and relevant case law. Assuming the shop where the purchase was made had included an exclusion clause limiting liability briefly explain whether the company could rely on this clause. Q1) The problem encountered in this case concerns
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elements required for formation a valid contract 3 1. Agreement 3 1.1 Offer 3 1.2 Acceptance 4 2. Consideration 5 2.1 Adequacy and Sufficiency of consideration 5 2.2 Privity of contract 5 3. Intention to create legal relations 6 3.1 Domestic arrangement 6 3.2 Commercial agreement 6 3.3 Capacity 7 PART 2 – The impact of different types of contract 8 1. Verbal contract 8 2. Written contract 8 The parol evidence rule 8 3. Implied contract 9 PART 3 – The effect and meaning
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assurance provided by the sales representative should be permitted as evidence in the case or not. The oral assurance on the productivity of the seed contradicted the written clause in the purchase order, and under the parol evidence rule, such contradictory evidence creates a strong presumption in favour of the written terms (Weir, 2010, p. 189). * Whether the written clause in the purchase order supersedes the oral assurance (if permitted as evidence) given by the sales representative for the
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