Although legal terminology can make reading and understanding a contact challenging, the principals involved are straightforward. A contract written on a cocktail napkin is just as valid as one ...

Commentary Commentary The Value of Oral Contracts in Franchise Transactions The franchise case begins with a quote of movie mogul, Samuel Goldwyn, "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written ...

Buying a movie ticket, returning a library book and paying the person who mows your lawn are valid contracts. A legal contract consists of an agreement between two or more parties in which the parties ...

The Georgia Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court order dismissing a plaintiff's breach-of-contract claim, finding that an amended contract does not supersede or replace an older contract ...

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Benny Magness, chairman of the Arkansas Board of Corrections, on Tuesday withdrew the board's contract with an outside legal counsel from consideration by a legislative committee after he said he was ...