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ratify

or contract of an agent) by express or implied consent with the effect of original authorization [unable to rescind the contract because he ratified it by accepting the benefits] compare reform rat·i·fi·ca·tion [ra-tə-fə-kā-shən] n rat·i·fi·er [ra-tə-fī-ər] n

contract

agreement see also accept, bargain, breach, cause, consent, consideration, duty, meeting of the minds, obligation, offer, performance, promise, rescind, social contract, subcontract Uniform Commercial Code in the Important Laws section NOTE: Contracts must be made by parties

cancel

with the provisions of U.C.C. section 2-106 or a similar statute because the other party has breached compare rescind, terminate NOTE: Section 2-106 provides that a party that cancels a contract because of the other party's breach

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Countermand

To revoke a former command to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given as to countermand an order for goods

Representation

untruth might be a ground for resisting specific performance, Redgrave v. Hurd, 20 Ch D 1, or for rescinding the contract, Newbigging v. Adam 34 Ch D 582; and see Russell and Brown's Contract, 1934 Ch 34.

Revocation

things done before; or special, to revoke a particular thing, 5 Rep. 90. The word revocation' means annulling, rescinding, withdrawing. In the facts and circumstances of the case orders of release cancelling orders of detention amount to

Restitutio in integrum

Restitutio in integrum, the rescinding of a contract or transaction, so as to place the parties to it in the same position, with

Reserving points of law

of 1875. But s. 17 of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876, and R.S.C. Ord. XXXVI., r. 22A (now rescinded), substituted for this procedure the argument of the point on 'further consideration' before the judge himself, and now

Commissoria lex

a clause often inserted in conditions of sale, by which a vendor reserved to himself the privilege of rescinding the sale, if the purchaser did not pay his purchase-money at the time agreed on, Dig. 18, tit.

Remainder

but the first is to determine when the latter commences. It is the commencement of the latter which rescinds and destroys the former, and not the ceasing of the former which gives existence to the latter. The

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