Contracts & Agreements
Why a Promise Needs Something in Return Before It Binds Anyone
Most legal systems will not enforce a bare promise. What they look for instead explains a surprising amount of ordinary contract…
Sridhar Anantharaman
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18 articles
Contracts & Agreements
The Moment a Deal Becomes a Contract
Negotiation and obligation feel continuous from the inside. The law draws a line somewhere in the middle, and knowing roughly where…
Contracts & Agreements
What Putting an Agreement in Writing Actually Buys You
Writing rarely creates the obligation. It settles what the obligation was, which is usually the thing people end up arguing about.
Contracts & Agreements
Boilerplate: The Clauses at the Back That Decide How a Dispute Runs
The final pages look like formalities. They set the rules for what happens when the commercial part of the contract stops working.
Contracts & Agreements
Indemnity and Warranty Do Different Jobs in the Same Contract
The two words appear together so often that they blur. They allocate risk in genuinely different ways, with different consequences.
Contracts & Agreements
Take It or Leave It: Why Standard Form Contracts Attract Extra Scrutiny
When one side writes all the terms and the other can only sign, legal systems tend to look harder at what those terms say.
Courts & Process
Why Most Disputes End Before Anyone Sees a Courtroom
The overwhelming majority of civil claims settle, and the reasons are structural rather than a matter of anyone losing their nerve.
Courts & Process
Burden of Proof and Standard of Proof Ask Different Questions
One decides who has to persuade the decision-maker, and the other decides how thoroughly. Confusing them muddles almost every…
Courts & Process
What Evidence Actually Does in a Dispute
Evidence is not about being right. It is about making a decision-maker able to find in your favour, which is a narrower thing.
Courts & Process
Mediation, Arbitration and Litigation Are Three Different Machines
They resolve disputes in fundamentally different ways, and choosing between them determines cost, privacy, speed and who decides…
Courts & Process
A Judgment Is Not the Same as Getting Paid
Winning a case establishes an entitlement. Converting that entitlement into money is a separate process with its own difficulties.
Contracts & Agreements
Implied Terms: The Promises Nobody Wrote Down
A contract is never only what appears on the page. Legal systems add obligations the parties never discussed, and that addition…
Contracts & Agreements
Frustration: When Performance Becomes Something Else Entirely
Some contracts are overtaken by events so completely that the law treats them as at an end. The doctrine is narrower and stranger…
Contracts & Agreements
Capacity: Why Some Signatures Cannot Bind the Signer
Legal systems assume adults can commit themselves to obligations. Where that assumption fails, an agreement can become fragile in…
Contracts & Agreements
Clicking I Agree: How an Online Agreement Is Formed
No paper, no pen and often no reading at all. Online contracting has kept the old requirements while changing almost everything…
Courts & Process
Serving Documents and Why Delivery Is a Legal Act
Getting papers to the other side is not an administrative formality. It is what gives a court authority over a party, and defects…
Courts & Process
Default Judgments and What Ignoring a Claim Costs
Not responding does not make a claim disappear. It usually converts it into a decision against you, reached without anyone hearing…
Courts & Process
Statements of Case: How a Dispute Gets Defined on Paper
Before evidence, before hearings, both sides write down what they say happened. Those documents fix the boundaries of everything…